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Customers find the radio has a great receiver and has all the features they need to filter out noise. They say it works well, has a nice clear tone, and is easy to set up and use. The controls are intuitive, and the radio has many functions to meet individual needs.
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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:
AM/SSB
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 27.1 x 8.71 x 20.32 inches; 2.2 Pounds
Item model number : TXUS600
Date First Available : November 7, 2016
Manufacturer : President Electronics
ASIN : B01N0A8GO2
Talkback
12/24V
Automatic Squelch Control (ASC)
Roger Beep
VOX (Hands Free Function)
Emergency Channels
NB, ANL and Hi-Cut Filters
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great radio, but my unit arrived with dead speaker, spurious tone in receive. Replacement is fine!
Review: This addition to my review is to document the performance of the replacement to the first radio shipped to me.As noted below, the first radio had some problems. I returned it, and ordered a replacement. The new radio works very well. Internal speaker sounds good and no spurious tone in audio. Power output and modulation are close to legal maximum, in both AM and SSB.Have made several contacts, every contact remarks on good sound of this radio. Just finished a 13.5 mile mobile contact on SSB; the other operator has decades of experience on the radio and commented that this President McKinley was one of the best sounding “out of the box” radios he’s heard. I’m very pleased with this purchase, and highly recommend this radio.*** ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOW ***Nice radio with lots of good features. Unfortunately the radio delivered to me came with no internal speaker output, and had a spurious tone when receiving in AM mode.Very attractive, modern radio with a lot going for it. Installation was straightforward. The small size of this unit allows for many options for install. Unfortunately, upon power-up, no output from internal speaker. The external speaker output worked fine. Great reception, except a very low level tone, maybe around 1KHz or so, was present in AM receive. No problems noted during SSB reception. Power output and modulation was right up where it should be.I like this radio, and believe the problems I experienced with this individual unit are simply a random manufacturing defect. I have returned the defective radio, and will be ordering a replacement.
Reviewer: Joe Godleski
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It’s a nice modern CB radio.
Review: I purchased this cb to replace my trusty cobra 29 and have ssb capabilities.Things I like:Compact sizeReady to go out of the box. No need to peak and tune.SWR calibration processChannel changing micAbility to adjust power out of the boxScan featureWeatherThings I dislike:Having to key the mic to make some adjustmentsThe lack of a rf gain knob.6 pin mic connectorSomewhat noisyOverall I like the radio a lot. I found that you need to run the mic gain at about 80% or it distorts transmissions. Set up is super easy with the swr tone calibration. Don’t expect a ton of power, but the radio plain works. I’ve talked dx barefoot but you won’t get much attention unless conditions are in your favor or you add power. The radio has great “ears” for a mobile transceiver. The one thing I miss about my 29 is the rf gain knob. Sometimes you want to have it open and sometimes you only want to hear the other side of the highway and squelch alone doesn’t work as well as gain and squelch combined and the ability to easily make adjustments.One feature that I’m still on the fence about is the Automatic Squelch Control. It’s not quite perfect yet. There are times it works too good and other times it’s not good enough.Overall I really like the radio and I’m happy with its performance. I wish I could give it 4.5 stars as it more indicative of my opinion. The negatives aren’t deal breakers, hopefully they can be corrected in future editions.
Reviewer: Mark
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love it
Review: I had a cobra set up 29LX with stud coax and 4’ flex antenna all cobra and went weeks trying to get my SWR down to nothing that wouldn’t blow up everything but couldn’t. Dang near ground strapped the whole Jeep. Finally I ditch the cobra system and went with this president model a 4’ Firestik FS and the fire ring on a spare tire mount Jeep JK and within the hour it took me to install everything I was 1.2 across the board!! Excellent radio and excellent pairing off all the above mentioned components for me!!
Reviewer: Sam Jackson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Performance without the Fluff
Review: I just wanted a modern radio that performs well without all the lights and goofy flashy stuff that so many modern CB radios come with. This one was it. I managed to get a SSB contact in Nova Scotia from the SE United States a while back, and I don’t mess with DX very much. I was not running an amp with it. Local contacts are clear, and it has a very nice feature set. Sound quality is very good, and the front-firing speaker is awesome. Bass and Trebel is also adjustable. I turned the trebel down a bit to make static a little less grating to the ear. Build quality is good, and it resembles a VHF/UHF ham radio in appearance. Highly recommended to anyone that just wants a good radio without all the flashy pomp. Flashing lights and chrome accents don’t make them work better.
Reviewer: Porfirio Ramirez Cruz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Me llego a tiempo, cumple con lo ofrecido es excelente relación calidad – precio, me gustó mucho.
Reviewer: jean-francois
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This CB Radio is easy to use.The built-in SWR help you with the antenna adjustment very nice feature.In the adjustment mode, this radio emits beep sound as you tune (live) your antenna.A continuous sound tells you when the swr is perfect (1) cannot be better it’s amazing.The automatic Squelch unique with president radio set Squelch automatically , it’s working so well that I will never use the regular Squelch again.It’s the only menu driven control radio that makes sense because it’s very well done.I also like the fact that the service manual (electronic Schematic) on the web.I don’t buy radio if I cannot service them in the future.It’s a 5 Stars product
Reviewer: Jayemerald
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Bought as a gift for someone in UK. The EU 40 is misleading, no good in UK.
Reviewer: John Alexander Berry
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The President McKinley USA is a fine and reliable performer. It is easy to operate, and clarifying an SSB signal requires only a very slight adjustment of the fine-tune clarifier. There are course and fine clarifier controls, but the course tuning control knob never needs touching. (See the video of the transceiver receiving a signal on channel 33 lower side band).The unit is robust and well built, and can be used in a mobile or base station situation. I particularly like the front mounted speaker (on the left), as the audio quality from that speaker is good enough to obviate the need to plug in an extension speaker.Other features of this radio include a built-in VSWR (Voltage Standing Wave Ratio) meter, eliminating the need to check the VSWR with an external meter! The SWR reading I obtained from the built-in meter coincided with the result I obtained using an external SWR meter, so the built-in device is reasonably accurate.The McKinley also features a ”President” invention, namely the Automatic Squelch Control, which first appeared in President CB radios back in 1996. This radio also has a scanning control, so you can easily scan the 40 channels in about 5 seconds. You can scan in AM mode or Upper and Lower Sideband modes, but note that when scanning, the Automatic Squelch Control will only work in the AM mode.I’ve given this radio 5 stars overall for quality, reliability, and ease of operation.
Reviewer: Adrian Hernández Rodríguez
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: No me gustó k no trae disipador en la parte trasera espero no tener problemas de calentamiento
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