Ranger Communications RCI-5054DX Product Review
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Product Review & Short Takes Columns from QST Magazine
March, 2002
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Ranger Communications RCI-5054DX 6-Meter Transceiver
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Copyright © 2002 by the American Radio Relay League Inc. All rights reserved.
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- Page 1 Product Review & Short Takes Columns from QST Magazine March, 2002 Product Reviews Ranger Communications RCI-5054DX 6-Meter Transceiver Maha MH-C777 and MH-C777PLUS Battery Chargers Short Takes KAM XL Multimode Communications Processor Copyright © 2002 by the American Radio Relay League Inc. All rights reserved.
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10—and a mobile rig for the exception: viewing angles below perpen- selected digit’s value. This arrangement works very well for rapidly hopping 6-meter band. The RCI-5054DX 6-meter dicular to the screen. From these vantage points the segments essentially vanish. A around on the band. - Page 3 Table 1 Ranger RCI-5054DX, serial number TIY00796 Manufacturer’s Claimed Specifications Measured in the ARRL Lab Frequency coverage: receive and transmit, 50-54 MHz. Receive and transmit, as specified. Power requirements: 13.8 V dc; current consumption not specified. Receive, 0.30 A; transmit, 4.6 A, tested at 13.8 V.
- Page 4 Figure 1—Spectral display of the Figure 2—CW keying waveform for the Figure 3—Spectral display of the RCI-5054DX transmitter during two-tone RCI-5054DX showing the first two dits. RCI-5054DX transmitter output during intermodulation distortion (IMD) testing. The equivalent keying speed is 60 WPM.
- Page 5 Most contemporary transceivers sistor are all that’s required. Wiring in the It was time to give the RCI-5054DX tune in 10-Hz (or smaller) increments. encode/decode board is a bit more com- a try on the open road.
- Page 6 Maha MH-C777 and MH-C777PLUS Battery Chargers Reviewed by Kenneth Stuart, W3VVN ARRL Technical Advisor It’s probably safe to say that most of us own a transceiver—or at the very least a portable consumer electronics device— that relies on a rechargable battery pack for its power source.
- Page 7 recharge these packs with the PLUS. Quick charging will cease when the nected. Failure to do this will likely result Although the MH-C777PLUS can be microprocessor detects either a slight re- in damage to lithium batteries. directly powered from 12 V dc (a ciga- duction in the battery voltage, that a spe- Conditioning of a battery pack is per- rette lighter cord is provided with both...
- Page 8 SHORT TAKES KAM XL Multimode Communications Processor text when the KAM could not. With so many digital modes available as computer sound card applications these days, is there still a place in the Ama- On PACTOR the KAM was a winner. I could tune and copy teur Radio world for a multimode communications processor PACTOR signals within seconds.