President Randy 3 Handheld Transceiver

Hi group 

I doctored it by snipping out the 2 white loop wires and today just got my furthest contact into North Germany with a K40 mag whip on the jeep

Happy days 

73s John.

I have just done a order for one of these, should have it soon, will let you know how it goes, what are the plus points on cutting these 2 white wires.

glenn dog wrote:

I have just done a order for one of these, should have it soon, will let you know how it goes, what are the plus points on cutting these 2 white wires.

Think it just opens the radio to the 10m area?, wont be needing that if that is all it does?

BASS 666 wrote:

Bones wrote:

Hi Dave
          Ive just got back into cb radio since the 80s and im in the ballymena area theres a bit of normal fm/am chatter but most seems to be on the sideband ,if you do decide to get back into it go to the wee watch shop in town Rab there is very helpful and can advise you on which set to buy also very good after sales advice and you can drop him a line for help and he will get back to you as I did yesterday.
73s
Bones

was talking to a guy from your town the other night his name was Sam ... he was right a the bottom of the box but we talked so it looks like i can get through to your gaff ..

I got hold of Sam the other day he's only just up the road from me

Bones wrote:

BASS 666 wrote:

Bones wrote:

Hi Dave
          Ive just got back into cb radio since the 80s and im in the ballymena area theres a bit of normal fm/am chatter but most seems to be on the sideband ,if you do decide to get back into it go to the wee watch shop in town Rab there is very helpful and can advise you on which set to buy also very good after sales advice and you can drop him a line for help and he will get back to you as I did yesterday.
73s
Bones

was talking to a guy from your town the other night his name was Sam ... he was right a the bottom of the box but we talked so it looks like i can get through to your gaff ..

I got hold of Sam the other day he's only just up the road from me

yeah i knew you would know him ...

glenn dog wrote:

I have just done a order for one of these, should have it soon, will let you know how it goes, what are the plus points on cutting these 2 white wires.

Converts it to export mode giving you 6 bands (ABCDEG) AM/FM from 25.6150 - 28.3050 MHz and also the UK 40 Channels. 

73s John

Ok, thanks for info, should get mine today, not been a Ham, I think I keep it in normal modes.

I’ve had one for about 15 months. Can’t fault it really as a handheld. As with any handhelds, range can be limited, but that said it’s very good.

I got the Randy III recently, I feel it’s an amazing radio for its size.
With its short rubber duck, indoors from France,I can listen to guys from US every afternoon, especially on the Ch6. There there’s notably an illustrious dude, a black guy, who sounds like a preacher, from Chicago. Sometimes 10 voices at ones arguing.
I can hear often Greek, Turkish, Russian and German as well.

I’ve tried it in the car with with the president Wyoming antenna and the reception gets twice as amazing!
For Tx I’ve been trying like crazy to get any Frenchman or trucker to answer me but haven’t succeeded yet. Mind that I haven’t tried transmitting from up in the hills. Here in my corner of France there were people on the CB as far as 12|ish years ago, arguing, insulting eachother every day at around 7pm before dinner, though nowadays there is a DEAD SILENCE all across the channels.

Will let you know how far if I get a contact when go up in the hills.
I’ll try it with this 132cm telescopic “Twayrdio” antenna i got from Amazon for 23€.

Should do the cut-wires export mode thing soon too..

Great radio, i love mine, only problem i have is the belt clip can be a bit bad, seems to come away too easily.

The Randy III is receiving very loudly the American traffic (they fill half of the channels some afternoons), also Greek, Turkish, German voices…only with the rubber duck antenna. 
In the car I hook it to a president Wyoming antenna and it really comes to life. I’ve managed to speak to close by stations from the car.
One day I fitted it with the long telescopic antenna and went up on the hills to try to make contact but this day all channels were full of American voices that were virtually screaming!!

I plan to open it and cut the two wires to switch it to “export mode” and get additional hundreds of channels..

Hi Everyone.
Got my Randy 3 today, I have tried a couple of fist mic's in the socket on the side and the radio goes straight into TX, not sure what is going on, they look like standard Kenwood style plugs and the fist mic works fine on my other radios.
Anyone have any ideas.

73
Nigel MM0NJS

Update: Figured it out, the pin-out is Midland standard not Kenwoood, works a treat now that I have the correct mic plugged in....

https://www.rxtx.fi/paavalikko/jr-4001-e-il-monofoni-randy-urano-panther-cb-413-h100-f1-tight-icom/p/305023/


THIS MIGHT HELP YOU, I9N FINNSH BUT MAY HELP FIND ONE IN THE UK

https://www.rxtx.fi/paavalikko/kep-28-monofoni-panther-cb-413-randy-2-genzo-bt/p/305022/ 


This should work all so.

FOUND 1 MORE,  


https://www.rxtx.fi/paavalikko/alan-ma-26-l-old-monofoni-icom-midland-alan-mk68-m68-tight-ja-f1-tti-tx-1000-ja-tx-130-ran/p/305026/

Thanks Glen for the replies.

Managed to find a fist mic with the correct pin layout in my box of many things at the back of the shed, never throw stuff out cos you never know.

73 and happy new year