N0BXE Very satisfied with repairs by affordableradiorepair&

[HamGal]

I recently had some work done by Mike Alexander N0BXE of www.affordableradiorepair.com, whose site is hosted here at QTH. I had an old ICOM 730 that wasn't receiving well at all. It was equally poor on all bands. Mike's communications were very clear and personable. I felt I was in good hands with him. I sent that ICOM off to Mike and he did an all-around tune-up on it. It's working like a charm now and I am VERY pleased. I have an ICOM R-70 sitting alongside it and the radio Mike worked on frequently gets signals stronger by 2 S units!! I should mentiond that Mike's pricing seems very reasonable and when he billed me, I was satisfied there too.

I made a clickable google type map of the locations of guys I was hearing on the R-70 for a month or so and then using a different marker icon, I added the guys I've heard with the 730 since it came back. It's quite clear that most of my longest distances have been with the ICOM that Mike tuned up for me. The map is posted on my blog. I don't know if I can list the URL here, but it's in my profile. It's a non-commercial website - just a blog at this point.

I also did the map because I wanted to see what kind of radial distribution I was getting. I wanted a visual way of checking if my 'droopy-drawers-dipole' antenna was omni-directional or not. Dipole's have directionality, but mine is 20 to 30 feet up. Being on the West coast, with a whole lot of Ocean spanning quite a range of angles, it's hard to be sure, but from what I can tell it seems to get all directions pretty well. That wasn't as clear from the R-70 data points either.

Anyway, my thanks to QTH for hosting websites of reliable guys like Mike. And my thanks to Mike again too!

Priscilla