Sunday 24 June 2012

AKD 4001 is a low cost rig specifically designed for use on 4m.


Here is a nice little basic radio for 4m, The AKD 4001 is a low cost rig specifically designed for use on 4m. In the past 4m operation was obtained by either modifying ex AM PMR equipment or buying expensive transverters - some of which are no longer available. The rig comes with a useful  25W on high power, 5W on low power. Powered from an external 13.8V DC supply, it can either be used as a mobile or base station rig. Supplied as standard with a fist type microphone with 4- pin mic. connector and DC power lead.
The buttons on the front of the radio are self explanatory, "On/Off" turns on and off the radio, "Lo/Hi" is the output power of the radio, and the channels are changed by the right and left arrows. The usual Squelch and Volume knobs are there too!!
Channels are displayed as numbers (not frequencies), see the chart below for corresponding frequencies and channels:  
The down side for this radio is that it only covers 70.250-70.4875 MHz (20 channels/12.5 KHz spacing) also does not have CTCSS.
See below for a chart of frequencies for the AKD 4001:



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