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I recently traded up a galaxy 2517. The older version with a 2166 driver and two 2312's. I can not for the life of me get it to swing more than 6 watts on am and 8 on side band. Also noticed the variable power will only turn up to 3 watts no matter where you adjust the high low inside the radio...
Ok, working my way through checking solder joints I discovered that when i pressed on the rf shield the dead key would restore to 2 watts where i set it. So, probing around right there I found a 102 cap that was loose at the solder joint. I secured it and went through reflowing the solder joints...
I have used both the irf520 and the 13n10. The 520 didn't produce the power the 13n10 did but it was a cleaner power. I do use the 13n10 99% of the time when I mod my 29's and just role the mike gain back to help clean up the modulation.
I recently bought a cobra 2000. It's in great shape cosmetically and the board isn't butchered up which I thought was amazing giving the age of these radios. The problem I'm having is I can set the dead key for say 2 watts using VR-10. It might key 2 watts for days or 2 minutes. I talked on it...
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