Thread: Icom 737

Built in the mid to late 90's. 100 watt, 10-160 meters with WARC bands, AM/FM/SSB/CW/(no native Digi Modes, not a big deal if you have a computer), built in antenna tuner (which you knew). Retailed for close $1800 new and would make a outstanding starter rig for HF if its in good shape. Read the reviews here they give it 4.6 out of 5.... http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1026 Make ...

I am going to buy it. Going to meet the guy half way since it is pretty far. guess I will bring some jumper type cables to fire it up off a car battery or something.... I will see if he has a dummy load, and other than that I honestly wouldn't even know how to make sure works well, but they guy seems up and up. His call is legit, proper for his gear and all. He had the trim's replaced a ...

either way I am not sure I am going to have enough room to put one of these up, as erecting poles in the backyard is probably a "no go" in my rental home. might have to trim it down to 1/2

I would not trust a RS SWR meter for anything but a CB. If space is a problem look at one of these a Alpha Delta DX-EE 10,15, 20 and 40 meters http://www.alphadeltacom.com/pdf/DX-...structions. pdf Page three will help you understand the way all are fed from one coax. It's 40 ft end to end. I have it mounted between the peak of my house and tree

40ft end to end is easily doable. been looking at some that were 200+ feet long. Space is not a concern, having it sooner and cheaper is a concern

Oh and on the SWR meter..save up a little cash and get a cross needle unit. No setting it or calibrating it to take a reading...One needle reads output and the other reads the reflected power....Where they cross is your SWR http://www.gigaparts.com/parts/gpcpa...al/zmf-822. jpg Thats a MFJ unit but it gives you the idea of what it looks like.

I picked that one up for about $100 by the time I would have bought the center connector and the wire it was cheaper to buy it pre-made

Oh also to use the tuner in the radio you need a balanced feed antenna such as a dipole. Its not going to match a random wire, inverted L or something like a Windom antenna. Basically if the antenna is using the Ground as one antenna leg your not going to match it with that built in tuner in most cases.

radio is mine now.. drove all the way there to see it in operation... runs good, pristine condition, so... guy had a nice ham shack, yaesu 950, nice kenwood rig, etc.. dude lives in the country gots about 10 antennas running. think this radio will be in good shape... mars capped as well as all trim caps replaced with ceramics. we will see once i get my ticket punched for general

well, simple G5RV antenna built and hung from some tree's. I can hear people. one from PA. off to a good start. the built in tuner is impressive, and the radio self limiting in the case of bad SWR. no built in SWR meter, but it seems to know what it is doing. antenna tuned up in 2 seconds and I am listening... Once I get my ticket punched maybe I can talk to someone. EDIT: maybe antenna...