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K8CKW
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Rating: 4/5
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Sep 22, 2002 16:37
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A very good radio for its time.
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I have a atlas 210x with the console and mobile mount. Its a good sideband rig and works well to this day. Its not to good on CW because of drift and poor filtering but I still like the radio for camping trips.
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VE6XX
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Rating: 4/5
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Feb 6, 2002 03:45
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teething troubles when new
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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Greetings! I owned several 210's & they were ALL frequency drifters, & two had tx spurs out to 1GHz! The receivers were very good for the time, but the tx was unfortunate , to say the least. It is not adesirable rig for today, for a variety of reasons, support/parts being in the forefront. The fixed station console was a nice feature, but I expect they are becoming rare. If it works, It would make a good portable or mobile rig for a "beater" vehicle or summer cottage/hunt camp. Ok for working local nets on 75 or 40, but not a serious radio. The price would have to be right.
Regards, Brian, VE6XX
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KB5PLD
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Rating: 3/5
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Feb 5, 2002 22:57
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Good rx bad tx
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I have owned an Atlas 210x LE since 1980. The LE has extended rx/tx on 10m. During this time I have put in new PA transistors 4 times. The first time it blew the tx I sent it to Herb Johnson of Atlas radio. He went through the tx and sent it back with a statement that it was back to original factory specs. When I got it back I was on the air 2 weeks and it blew the transistors again. So I went through the tx after that. The last time I installed new transistors the guys at Rf Parts informed me of a fix for tx problems and I havent had a problem with the tx since. The rx is the best part of the rig. It can pull the weakest signals out and be perfectly readable. But it drifts badly. When you are on the air, you better keep one hand on the mic and the other on the tuning knob! Tnx de KB5PLD.
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K6SDW
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Rating: 3/5
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Jul 21, 2000 18:31
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Solid transmit/receive, but limited
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I've had an Atlas 210x fer 4-5 years, but not used it much. Very solid receive and transmitter, in fact, receive selectivity compares with the best analog rigs of that era.
Radio is getting "long in the tooth" - old, it doesn't cover the WARC bands nor all of 80 and 10mtr bands, mostly the phone segments. Speaking of CW mode, forget it, it's there but very rudimentary by today's standards. No side tone and unless you have the VOX unit you must manually switch between ssb to cw by hand....U G H!!!
Positive side, its small enough to make a great, cheap ssb mobile rig. Seems frequency stability is good enough for mobile service.
If you buy one and it breaks, good luck getting parts! May be buy two one working and one for parts?
I like mine -- it was ahead of its time when new, but "long in the tooth" now.....HI ....73
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