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Too much trouble. A radio should turn on and work without having to crack your brain doing it. My opinion. KF5K / or KR66 James

Oh man Ridge, what a bummer about getting that virus and having to reload everything. At least you know how to do it! Looking forward to the follow up video of this radio. Also, usually the antennas have their frequencies on the bottom on the antenna. You might need your reading glasses !!

Looks like a nice radio! Thanks for sharing.

I'd mount the antenna away from all those trees.. Or put it up above the trees if possible.. Why be discrete? You're a radio operator, put the antenna where it's going to perform the best.. Who cares what others see.. LOL Man that antenna is way too LOW.. Oh well to each his own.. If you look in the instructions I believe they recommend at least 9 feet above the peak of your roof the bottom of the antenna should be.. The farther up the better the performance.. Your choice of where you mounted the antenna and its height is a poor choice, to say the least..

ive been wanting to try to listen to the station on a scanner, what frequency are they on?

Where does the CW Morse key fit?

My supplier programmed my radio already with a good channel/freq structure will i lose all these memories once i update to latest firmware ? thanks

I bought a Solarcon A-99 recently and I'm very satisfied. I didn't have to tune it at all. It has excellent receive and really puts out DX'ing all day.

You rambled for 4 minutes and ended up not making contact, great video 😂

You don't know if you don't try. Hang in there Ridge. Always looking forward to your next video.

What about wide shrink tubing on the antenna instead of painting???

Just came across this vid today & found it extremely interesting. I'm hoping your still building & could answer a question. I know CB & Wi-Fi antennas are different but could a High Gain omnidirectional Wi-Fi antenna be built in a similar fashion? Thanks.

Vinyl wrap it ❤ .... ruclips.net/video/JXDmsSWkwu4/видео.htmlfeature=shared

I played around with the switch some more and still noticed a higher SWR. After this and reading TahoeMtnMan's comment, I have decided to return the switch and look for a better-quality switch.

Hey Ridge - Glad to see you putting out some more videos !

Ridge, please be aware that this kind of antenna switch only switches the center conductor and connects the outside conductor of all of the cables connected through the switch. This can cause noise. You can test this by testing the continuity between each of the outside conductors for the cables. ruclips.net/video/lMMql1gEORQ/видео.html

I have one it’s fine with the way it came from the factory

Nice job on repair on that radio I'm restoring mine too thanks and take care

There are MAJOR stability issues with CPS2.0.5 / firmware 101. The only SAFE way to use CPS is to read the radio , make edits, immediately write it back. Loading a saved codeplug from disk and flashing to the radio can result in the loss of memory banks M,N and O. Also dual watch bank lists misses BANK K which screws up its operation. I have raised the dual watch with anytone, zero response.

Sorry dummy load Antenna 73

will the GE radio not run with rechargable batteries ?

Great Video. Good for you working 10-meters! I am purchasing this radio. I do Dxing and use a Xeigu G90 (I have a 100 watt vintage Ten Tec Corsair but love the G90). My longest contact was 10,000 miles on the 10-meter band. The G90 is 20 watts. I wanted something with a a bit more power because I sometimes come across a hard to get country but lack enough power to bust the pile-up. You've chosen wisely with this rig. I read through the instruction manual and this radio has a lot of features. The biggest trick to making contacts on HF is the art of listening. While there are times I will jump right in - if it's a difficult to get contact - I first listen, get the callsign written down and then listen to how the contact asks for station replies and how the often large number of contacts responds. Often everyone talks at once, so more watts wins the race. Sometimes, there is a short silence and then a bunch of Hams talking at once. I try to give my callsign during those moments of silence. With 20 watts, I have beaten guys running a kilowatt to the contact. Enjoy HF, it's really fun and addictive...73...Hugh...KN6KNB

Will this tri-band radio also be capable of Tx on the GMRS and FRS frequenvies once programmed with CHRP? i like the idea of having all the other Rx ranges, a d simply respect that the PTT is not to be keyed unlessi got a HAM license. Seems like a good bang for the buck vs a dedicated GMRS radio only.

Also, you can change the setting for what is displayed in the Chirp software, rather than having to do it separately in the radio.

My personal preference is to add the frequency to the name in order to have as much info as possible.

Here's a thought. Read the manual before doing the video!!!

The CB radio is the only tool that keeps the freedom of speech! Let him say one one one he is happy that way. But i can understand people are frustraated by the one one one!

just a general question in which you probably don't know the answer to is- it says it has PA in the Menu but doesn't have a PA Speaker Jack at the rear of Radio, why?

how is the tone scan function ?

Has CW mode, but how do you connect a key. Or is it CW receive only

How do you set a name for the frequency? Could you make a video on that

Always check usb on 34-40 cb, Euro station will chat on that mode the whole time, and the sideband rejection is that good, but they are more likely to not speak English.

Nice work! You are making some great contacts there. The AT-6666PRO is a brilliant radio! 73

Fantastic job we're actually working on my antenna and putting my beam back up in there I can't wait to get it up and running

Wish I could trust someone to work on my radios. I just ordered a new face plate from the U.K. for my 146 is how much I like mine. Last time I took in a radio, a Uniden PC 122, the guy broke the volume. Then while trying to find the part he cleans the face plate with something that started taking the lettering off. Still can't find the part so I use my 146 again.

Is the power meter average or peak?

What is the national calling freq. ?

Try putting a common mode choke at the rig end - the RF is coming down the coax.

I'm just going to write this. I had a lot of radios like this. And this one is the best so far. Even the reception is excellent. Excellent sensitivity and selectivity. I don't know what kind of filters there are in it, but I am very pleasantly surprised. And even when I add 70-90W output power, it's perfect.

I tested my k5plus and a 21pro we managed to get 8.4miles with about 150 foot elevation difference with 3 built up areas and a mall in-between, thats going east, south we can't get 2.5 miles because of a hill lol

You're never going to have good sounding audio running it the way you are. Your audio is going to sound compressed and muffled. There's what's on paper and then there's what makes your audio loud and proud. Set that radio up for roughly a 1.5 watt dead key and adjust the modulation so it swings to around 15 watts. This will make the amp run cool and it will allow your audio to be loud and proud over the air. It's not that critical for this particular radio and amp, but when you're running 1,000 watts plus on AM it becomes critical that you don't burn up your equipment. There is no magic dead key number, each amplifier is different. If you're running 2879 transistors then you adjust the radios dead key so that each final transistor in the amplifier is dead keying 25 watts. 2 pill=50 watts, 4 pill=100 watts, etc. On a single final radio such as a Galaxy DX 959 that's approximately a 1.5 to 2 watts dead key and swing is exactly what you want! 25-35 watts of swing and a low dead key is the ticket to drive an amplifier efficiently. Your audio will be big and loud like a boss. Keep doing what you're doing if you want your audio to sound small and tiny. Go on AM channel 28 and listen to what big audio sounds like. I've been in the CB game for 30 years and talk skip all over the country. Like I said, there's what's on paper and then there's how you want your radio set up. Listen to how these HAM guys sound and then go listen to some big booming AM audio!

This radio works great in the truck, with the Umbilical cord to a Stryker A99..... 553 Almost Heaven WV

Works well for 11 meters LSB

Excellent value for money.

Do your VSWR (center band) Channel 19.. Channel 1 and 40 should then be equal.

Any chance you would know the Microphone wiring diagram to that 4 pin adapter cable for using something other than the stock mic? I am trying to wire a Turner JM+2/U handheld microphone to that 6 pin to 4 pin adapter cable and have no idea of the wiring.

Love your videos! I've read quite a few discussions about switching power supplies not being great for CB radios as they can introduce noise with the radio. Switching power supplies are much cheaper - curious what your thoughts are on that ?

What the anytone website name

Horrible audio on the video

Really nice radio you've got there! I picked one just like that up awhile back and sat it on the shelf but recently I pulled it down and started messing with it. Mine is the LED 40 CH version of yours. It is a little beat up but that's ok I plan to put it into my daily which is a 74' F100. Should fit the era pretty well. Sadly I am missing the bracket to mount it so I suppose I'm going to have to make my own. Was happy to see what that sticker on top said mine is all washed out.