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Anyone Buy The New President Washington?
Posted: August 20th, 2024, 3:55 am
by De_Wildfire
Has anyone bought the new President Washington? How do you like it? I have the old vintage Washington and was just wondering how the receiver performed. The vintage one was well known for their receiver and mine is stock. If you have one, tell us the perks. I see they only made a mobile version and didn't produce a base station. Your thoughts?
Re: Anyone Buy The New President Washington?
Posted: August 22nd, 2024, 10:32 am
by MDYoungblood
Don't have one but did read up on it, some YouTube's show the 11m mod and a mod to get it to 15m, with that said I would suggest a good manual antenna tuner or antennas tuned to the extra bands it has or the finals will be toasted in no time.
As far as specs, it seems to be right up there with some ham equipment.
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Greg
Re: Anyone Buy The New President Washington?
Posted: August 26th, 2024, 5:49 pm
by De_Wildfire
MDYoungblood....Thanks for the information. Wow, 15-10 meters. That radio would make a good POTA (parks on the air) radio. Very small and compact too. I'll check out the Youtube mod. As for the tuning, I could use those ham sticks and switch them out. Either that, use my old MFJ tuner to keep the SWR's 1:1.
Re: Anyone Buy The New President Washington?
Posted: September 9th, 2024, 9:03 am
by Decoder
Radio will not goto 15 meters (21mhgs). It will only goto 10/11/12 meters.
Re: Anyone Buy The New President Washington?
Posted: September 9th, 2024, 1:22 pm
by MDYoungblood
You are absolutely correct, I got my wires crossed, the radio that is capable of 10m to 15m is the Radioddity QT80 and I believe it is cheaper in price than the new Washington III.
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Greg
Re: Anyone Buy The New President Washington?
Posted: September 10th, 2024, 4:13 am
by De_Wildfire
Thanks for the clarification. It's still a nice small radio for POTA for 12/10 meters. I will check out eat QT80.
Re: Anyone Buy The New President Washington?
Posted: January 25th, 2025, 9:10 pm
by Stoneman
Did they change the look, or kept it the same??
Re: Anyone Buy The New President Washington?
Posted: January 26th, 2025, 3:43 am
by De_Wildfire
Stoneman,
They changed the look. They changed it to a mobile radio. It looks like any other "10 meter" radio on today's market. It would be nice if they could make a base station like Ranger company is putting out to compete with them. My old President Washington is still running great.
Re: Anyone Buy The New President Washington?
Posted: January 26th, 2025, 9:59 pm
by Stoneman
De_Wildfire wrote: January 26th, 2025, 3:43 am
Stoneman,
They changed the look. They changed it to a mobile radio. It looks like any other "10 meter" radio on today's market. It would be nice if they could make a base station like Ranger company is putting out to compete with them. My old President Washington is still running great.
That's crazy,
why would they change it to a mobile unit..Appreciate the info!