Stryker knows who their customers are and the people that liked their AM radios also liked the echo, talkback, colors and roger beeps. That crowd wanted one that was stable on frequency and had more options but also was still loud on AM. Stryker had loud AM only radios and they picked up a following of people who liked their radios but everyone had been asking for them to do a SSB radio. Now in regards to the roger beep, lights and echo that everyone on here keeps commenting on, let me give you my take on that. Just like with the CRE 8900 I found that you'll most likely want to back the RF gain down a bit to reduce some of the noise and it won't have any large effect on your incoming signals. Receive on the radio is very sensitive to the point of being noisy (much like the CRE 8900 I just reviewed). In the next couple of days I plan to do some on-air recordings so I can hear it for myself and compare it to a couple of other radios. I also got good reports last night from a station in Canada and good feedback from a station in Las Vegas this morning. They said it didn't sound overmodulated and audio was loud and clear. With the radio "peaked" WR178 and two other stations reported zero distortion, ever when I added the Turner +3. Frequency stability remained right on from turn on to turn off. The heatsink got warm to hot to the touch but nothing extreme for 20 minutes of straight talking.
I have heard some early reports of 80-90 watts output from some people, I'm guessing this can depend on the tuning, microphone, meter etc. I was running this through a low pass filter for testing. Both AM and SSB will peak 5 watts higher with a whistle but that's not what I usually go by. With adjusting the internal pots up AM is keying 15 watts and peaking at 65 watts, SSB is peaking around 75. I've known WR178 for years and I trust his on air opinion, when a radio doesn't sound good on the air he's always the first to tell me.Īs for tuning I usually try to max everything out initially and see if there is distortion or overheating and then back it down. I had a long conversation with WR178 this morning to discuss how it sounded on air and he reported that the audio was very good (with the stock microphone, we tested a turner +3 desk mike and SRA-158 and the stock mike sounded the best). So, price and color changing lights aside, in my testing last night and this morning I found this radio to be bang on frequency straight out of the box.
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