Keys react promptly, there are no issues with pots nor with rotary encoders. If this is really an Anytone, this CB radio is assembled on a different (better!) production line than their 2/70 dual bander… The PCB is very neatly built, there are no last-minute ‘Quick & Dirty’ design changes to be found. Whatever the brand name, the overall impression is certainly satisfactory.
The board of my review sample for example shows V5, but the firmware is V6.
Most of the radios have software version numbers attached to the model, which aren’t necessarily identical to the version number of the PCB. I’m pretty sure you will find this radio under other names I didn’t mention here. The PCB of this version is built a bit differently to make it fit into a DIN enclosure. There’s also a CRE variety, the CRE 8900. This radio can be found under a myriad of names. So, how good (or bad) are these radios really? I gave the Superstar SS6900N the same treatment as any other ham radio equipment I reviewed here, and ended up with some surprising results. The manufacturer claims the output to be 40 Watts on FM and SSB, and about 12 Watts carrier on AM/CW, all adjustable. They pump out a generous amount of power too, thanks to a couple of IRF520 MOSFET finals (which, BTW, are dirt cheap). They are indeed all-mode: FM, AM, SSB and CW. That is both to protect the finals in this Southern summer heat, and to protect a low-input amplifier.Yet it would be silly to ignore these radios all together. Specifically, turning the AM and FM carriers down to perhaps 5 watts with the front-panel control set to full. Now I'm thinking about internally adjusting the output power. Contrary to popular opinion by some who don't own one, this is a real ham radio. I'll probably add a universal CTCSS tone board so I can get into the 10M repeaters. You know, for listening.Īnyway, the bottom line is that this does indeed work so that I have the full 10M band and all the 11M stuff without needing to do the power up sequence to switch between them. Bank F got 29 MHz freqs for AM, FM simplex, and FM repeater pairs.ĭ remains CB, but I added some frequencies above the 40 US CB channels. I put 28 MHz frequencies in Bank E for 10M SSB, CW and beacon frequencies. It will accept up to 60 channels per bank. Had to connect it to the Internet for a few minutes so it could find and load the driver for the cable. I put it on an old laptop running XP that I use for programming commercial VHF/UHF radios. The primary reason for this thread is to report that I bought the programming cable, downloaded the free software, and it works.
There are a couple of other threads about this radio, and I've posted in at least one of them.
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