News from Juan CB27.com that Ranger are reintroducing the SS158 EDX to the market place. What a rather frightening idea unless has all and complete new internals.
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Hello.
While keeping the same vintage facade, this radio would have deserved the Qixiang/Anytone circuits to solve once and for all the problems of frequency drift recurrent in these old architectures with the internal settings subject to temperature variations.
They should do the same with RCI bases and mobiles 2950, 2970 etc…
With the hindsight of more than a year, I find it very pleasant to use a CRT SS7900V, 6900V or a Stryker SR-955HPV2 without frequency drift in SSB during long DX evenings.
The Clarifier I only use it in cases where the correspondent is really shifted.
Ranger need technical evolution…
73/51 14FA066 OP Alain in the South of France.
Ohhh that takes a lot of work to get that on spec only done two..cost a fortune but it can be done and modified to EU/UK specs but Def not for the beginner or basic tech job.
They need to put the QX PCB inside this one
Lot of “factory issue I found” and need to resolved before I give it the green go card.
There’s only one version SS-158EDX V2 in operations and exists in England,don’t plan on doing anymore as nobody would pay my time to fix it ,user will not depart with with the V2 now.
Spares could also be an issue in UK/EU land too.
We need to see the internals first really and what support Ranger USA will give in UK/Eu ?
Simon.👍
Regards
Rob P.
Ranger is living in the 90’s. 158 had great audio but was a drifting ssb nightmare.