> "Greg Beat" <gregory.b...@...> wrote: > Why would you want to? > > Surplus Kenwood TKR-820 units are readily available for $300 > and less. I have seen at least 30 sold in last 3 months on > eBay. These purposes built units have the power supply, > interface, BEEFY heat sinks for the TX RF transistors and > sometimes even the UHF duplexer ! > I would keep those as mobile radios. > w9gb
Straight forward questions... straight forward answers. Because the TKR-820 has less power output. I also don't want to pay to heat a bunch of individual linear power supplies and much of what I do is off grid. And the antenna is a combiner system. s.
