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I’m just north of you in Cherry Hill.

You helped me with doing mine like this. Should I crack it open and add a resistor in line?

Don’t have one, but the modulation now is great!

I'm surely talking to myself now, LOL. The trip went well. The CB got me out of a 7mi backup Indiana, and kept me informed all along the trip. Prior to leaving, I couldn't get anything peak/tweak -wise in the thread or PM, so I set it to 3w swinging about 7. I notice that a hard whistle...

at the risk of talking to myself here, lol... The mounting of an antenna has been a total PITA, hehe. I mounted it on my BackRack of my truck, where it sits atop my bedrail. I had to jump through hoops to get this to work, but it's mounted. I also attached some braid from the shield side to...

I picked up a mount and some rg 213 today. Getting closer.

The trip is coming up in a week and a half already. I need to grab some parts for the antenna install ASAP. Hopefully I can scare up a 5' black SkipShooter antenna, and a stainless steel through bumper mount, locally.

Cool! My favorite base was my Yaesu FT-902dm. It was tube output and transistor receive. The audio was just phenomenal! I built a Skelton Cone with a 4:1 balun and hung it in trees at about 125' at the apex and ends slopes to 60'. Each of the four legs was 126' long. It was resonant at 1.993mhz...

Oops - fat fingers! I re soldered the transister he clipped and it was back to being crystal clear. I recall that SSB was always really nice on that radio. I've had a ton of cb and ham radios over the years. Then I stopped cold turkey back around 1999. I sold or gave away most everything...

Thanks ex13! Pc122xl was my first side and radio! I loved that little rig! It packed an awful lot into a small package. I had some genius with a golden screwdriver modify it when I bought an amp from him, and it did not even sound understandable! I went in and re soldered

Thanks for the link, Midnight. Unfortunately, none of those radios are either my original nor this radio, lol. 338 - I've been mostly on the upside of deals, but you can't win them all; I'm human. I'm not above admitting my mistakes or impulses. It happens. All you can do is learn from...

I bought it not knowing that is was a "classic". When it arrived, I didn't notice the label right away. What are the pros/cons between the two?

My old Grant was not a "classic"; it was an original. Man did it talk and listen! It looks like this should be just as good. I'm excited to see what Exit13 has in mind :) Wally

it's obvious that someone has been all over inside this radio. I plan on fixing some cold joints when I get to modding her. Thank you so much for the help!! Wally

I got a reply from the seller along with pictures of other Grant Classics. It looks like this is all normal. The box is the auto-squelch unit, and the transistor on the back of the board and it's associated wiring are for converting the unit to give three equal bands of channels instead of the...