Recent content by 74fordman

ok so haven't had time to get back to it since my last reply but going to work on it more this week. as far as the glue goes someone else must have removed it all because its all gone and cleaned up. Im going to go through your replies tonight and do some more testing. i tell you when you work...

So got the manual printed out and going through the ic voltages first two I've found problems with are q101 and q120 these are the voltages Q101 2.00 6.81 2.71 1.73 6.29 2.47 Q120 was zeros across the board Q121 0.0 7.88 0.0 0.0 7.88 0.0 Q101 isn't that far off but not...

Ok so swr is good used the internal and an external meter and they both barley move so good there. Unfortunately I do not have anything more that the different schematics that I've found online so it would help if I could find some and start doing some testing

So I have continuity between the ground/shield side of the antenna connection and the positive side Grey wire this dose not seem right

ok sounds good ill check that out tonight also

i appreciate the comeback i actually had set this one to the side for a while and just came back to it last night. this thing did have work done to it. it has a chip switch in it q188 was missing and there was a resistor clipped witch i have put back.All this work was done probably about 18...

Pa works fine. Sitting right next to my galaxy I can pick up all kinds of traffic on the galaxy president is dead silent. Get in the truck sitting in the driveway can pick up the truck radio just not very loud leave the driveway can't hear the truck anymore. Took it to a shop transmit works like...

It transmits fine it's the recieve thats week

Where is he out of is he the one in New York

So hopefully I have this in the right place but here goes. I have a lincoln that has very weak receive and when I say weak I mean about 100 yards and that's it. On am if you turn the volume all the way up you can hear vary faint static. On USB lsb cw it's a little louder and fm you have plenty...

Ok so did the test with dynamic all the way down i get 34 ohms as you turn it up you can watch it climb get about to the half way point getting around 600 ohms it suddenly drops down to .8 ohms. Took it out to the truck put a power mic on it and it works fine so I'm assuming the dynamic is no good

Ok ill check that tomorrow and get back to you

Hi all new here. I have a cobra 25 ltd classic that doesn't seem to be putting out any audio. If you key the mic it dead keys at about 2.5 watts but no swing when talking. Playing with it today I couldn't get anyone to answer me and if I plug the external speaker into the pa side I just get...