can i change resister 114 for a 10k ohm for a better audio response

REVERSE POLARITY DIODE IS D-17,,IT IS A 1N4000 SERIES DIODE.
WILL BE LOCATED IN THE RIGHT REAR CORNER OF PCB,WITH
PARTS SIDE UP AND KNOBS TOWARD YOU.CHECK WITH YOUR
VOLT METER IF IT READS 0 OHMS.IT IS SHORTED.REPLACE WITH A
IN4004 OR 1N4003 DIODE.SOME WOULD SAY JUST CLIP IT OUT.
THIS WILL RESTORE POWER.BUT I SUGGEST IT SHOULD BE REPLACE.
BECAUSE IF YOU JUST CLIP OUT,AND IT GETS HOOKED UP REVERSED
AGAIN.ITS A GONNA DO SOME SERIOUSSS DAMNAGE.

Sorry,,i posted this in the wrong place...

IM not sure what you mean here SD ? What's the problem ? That radio should have top notch audio both AM and SSB , not sure what you mean by audio response ? What exactly are you trying to do here ?

saw somewhere that on cobra 2000 change that resistor for better response on am and ssb i have same board thank you

By response do you mean better receive?

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not for recieve i thought it was for transmit could be wrong though thank you

Change 114 to a 10K and C46 to a .2 monolithic. This widens up the TX repsonse on AM. You can just do 114 if you want. There's a bunch of other stuff you can do to really make the audio nice on these

yes, replacing R114 with a 10k resistor is a very cool mod for these radios.

this used to be on the old grant xl owners club board.
now defunct
LC

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well yeah, but what's really going on?

This is kind of what I meant , you can better this and better that all you want , but a simple tune up or down on those radios is all that's really needed. Nothing wrong with better , but there pretty darn good better radios to begin with unless somebody hacked the shit out of it. IM still trying to figure out just what the guys trying to do in the first place ?

Like loosecannon said , there's all kinds of "better" you can do to these radios , it's just that there already "better" to begin with. {This widens up the TX repsonse on AM} Why for ? please explain ? You could change every freaking diode in the radio if it means that much to you.

Loosecannon ? That was a Great Site you mentioned , it was surely to bad to see it go . Truly a Uniden grant XL lovers site for sure....... I was one of them. Although a perfectionist IM not , especially when a radio was built good to go from the get go .....but as I said , nothing wrong with "better" on top of "better" I suppose. Just depends on how much "better" one just has to have it .

I only say all this because I've used variations of this radio for 20 years (my all time favorite cb AM/SSB radio) , 148/Grants/XLs , for both mobile and base , they always performed fantastic in the RX and TX department only ever having to be slightly tuned up or down (to run given amp) I honestly can't speak for the newer 148s ? but I've never heard to much good about those . There's nothing wrong with "bettering" something that is already "better" if that's what you feel the need to do or pay somebody else to do for you. Here's a link to the old GrantXL Owners Site , with all the mods and then some if need be. Have fun ........http://www.geocities.com/cobra269/files.html?200817