Comments on: Ranger RCI 2995 DX

By: tomohawk

tomohawk — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:38:23 +0000

How do I adjust the frequency on the rci 2995? When I am on fm everyone tells me I am about 15 khz off. How do I fix this without knocking out am and ssb? What are the adjustment points?

By: Rick Newman

Rick Newman — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:05:40 +0000

It is an impressive looking radio, but the price equals that of an all-mode used ham radio of fairly recent manufacture.
Especially if you look at the design of the RCI-2995DX, the ham radio is clearly the better buy. The RCI still uses multiple (pulled) crystal oscillators as frequency references, where the ham radio uses a single master oscillator coupled to multiple DDS circuits to generate things like SSB injection frequencies and local oscillators. As a result, the ham radio can be tuned in 10 Hz steps and has a much better frequency accuracy. The RCI’s primitive PLL concept is ancient in design and frequency accuracy is 100Hz at best. Even in the eighties ham radios already did better than that.
To summarize: Looks great but has dated technology and is priced way to high. Forget it!

By: tom

tom — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:40:18 +0000

Silly jumbo of the future eh? only fit for us cb lot? i have to say that i have used quiet a number of ham radio’s and i have found it compares quiet well to most of them, yes, it has its faults but what radio dont? its ovious you look down on us ” cb lot ” cant help wondering how you would have come to know a radio such as the jumbo , used one to chat to cb’ers perhaps?
Tom

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:48:26 +0000

i have used the RCI-2995 DX
i also have a Cobra 148 gtl with a TS-350 and i use it alot on the base has alot more signal to punch thru the mess

to drive a nail you dont need a chrome plated hammer and shiney new nails to get your name hung on the wall

By: widget

widget — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:21:29 +0000

silly jumbo of the future, really only good for you cb lot how can they even dare to market this junk as a 10m radio aimed at hams ?

By: rich

rich — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:40:47 +0000

my 2990 has a problem with the power supply voltage regulator. wher in the radio is it and what does it look like?

By: larry rinaldi

larry rinaldi — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:26:14 +0000

hi i am larry. i have skirt noise and fan noise in my radio. can i get rid of it. can tell me.

By: larry rinaldi

larry rinaldi — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:01:59 +0000

I have an RCI 2995 dx and I would like to know how to get rid of the skirt noise and fan niose in my receive. Please contact me direct at princelarry@verizon.net with info if you can help .

Thank you,

Larry 719 kcsacr

By: larry rinaldi

larry rinaldi — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:33:38 +0000

I have an RCI-2995 DX and I would like to know how to reduce the skirt noise in my receive thanks. Do you change a voltage regulator or something? Can you please help me?

Regards,

Larry
719

By: tom

tom — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:16:24 +0000

Hi all. I got mine in 2008 and get great audio reports. 180w pep on ssb is no problem for this one. It’s a fantastic radio! One drawback though, it’s a bit noisy on receive.

73′s,

Tom
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