PRC-148 Radio, First Impressions and Initial Setup, and Follow on Setup on Chest Rig

[Outlander Systems]

Thanks, duder!

Yes, the current versions of the 152 (metal housing) are compatible with all the issued Harris batteries.

Does anyone know if you can use a Harris battery or MBITR battery with the TRI PRC152 10w version? I've looked around on the various forums but haven't found an answer. I have picked up a couple of these a while back and they work great. Somewhat concerned about the battery longevity and have been considering milspec batteries. I know the TRI mbitr copy uses an actual mbitr battery but don't know about these. Thanks for all the info posted in this thread. Studying for license like a lot of others here. Special thanks to Outlander for your efforts here.

[Outlander Systems]

This is the second time I’ve heard this recently.

A friend of mine picked one up from Shinq in the last month, and we confirmed Air Band receive a couple of days ago.

You have a radio from the shiqinxi_0 guy? Trying to figure out why his TRI 152A radios don't do AM receive while the other TRI 152As do. Seems like they should be the same thing.

[cdb]

This is the second time I’ve heard this recently.

A friend of mine picked one up from Shinq in the last month, and we confirmed Air Band receive a couple of days ago.

Pretty weird, I messaged and asked why his didn't have it listed but other sellers did. He said his didn't do AM receive and he knew none of the others did either because they all get their raidios from him. Maybe something lost in translation. Glad to hear that they do anyways.

[Outlander Systems]

He may be covering his own ass, as it’s illegal in China to have those freq’s available for receive on radios. Tune to your nearest Approach/Departure Frequency, typically 121.0000, and let the radio marinate until you hear activity to confirm.

Pretty weird, I messaged and asked why his didn't have it listed but other sellers did. He said his didn't do AM receive and he knew none of the others did either because they all get their raidios from him. Maybe something lost in translation. Glad to hear that they do anyways.

[elf]

Whew, finally caught up with reading this whole thread, thank you all for the valuable info about these radios, love my vx7 but I think I might pick one of these up and check it out.
So I'm looking to grab one from ebay but it's a little confusing with all the various models on there but if I followed this thread correctly, the one that includes HF does not exist, so this is the correct one to grab right? (TRI 10w 152 with metal body) https://www.ebay.com/itm/LIMITED-EDI....c100008.m2219

[RobertTheTexan]

Digital mode update. Using the adapter/interface shown below corrected all issues with I/O signal levels. Levels are normalized compared to the relatively low output audio being sent directly to the radio via jumper. By running the CW Adapter Unit to the radio via jumper, and feeding the GD Box via the Audio line out, the input/output levels are in-line with what should be used for digital modes. I'd have no problem confidently using the below configuration, effectively, for NBEMS.

Man this is pure awesome sauce. Found this article that helped turn the lightbulb on what you accomplished.
Thx for posting this info.


http://www.arrl.org/nbems


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[RobertTheTexan]

Whew, finally caught up with reading this whole thread, thank you all for the valuable info about these radios, love my vx7 but I think I might pick one of these up and check it out.
So I'm looking to grab one from ebay but it's a little confusing with all the various models on there but if I followed this thread correctly, the one that includes HF does not exist, so this is the correct one to grab right? (TRI 10w 152 with metal body) https://www.ebay.com/itm/LIMITED-EDI....c100008.m2219

Yes, this is who I bought my 152 from.


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[elf]

Yes, this is who I bought my 152 from.


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Copy that, thank you sir.

[RobertTheTexan]

I ran across this the other day and picked one up. I connected to an 8w Baofeng I had and the the xmit results of the 8w radio were very impressive so I picked one up for my 152. Hopefully I can do little testing this week and compare capability versus the antenna currently on my radio. I’ll post up updates when I do. I like this antenna because it’s super flexible and I think it will hold up well routed through the antenna channels on my chest rig harness. Here’s the link. I’m not 100% sure what it brings to the table but I’m pretty optimistic. As soon as I have some results I’ll post results.

https://signalstuff.com/antennas/

[ReverseEngineerNT]

Coming in way late to the TRI PRC-148 party, but wanted to register in case I could contribute any info as I go along. I gained a lot from this thread, thanks to all who posted!