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Sent him a pm.

I know that Alan Price bought most of Barketts stuff. I've already purchased a number of Browning Parts from him at very reasonable prices. Not much different from what Greg was selling stuff for. Where did this information come from?

Super old post, but what diode are you using for this mod?

This may have been covered on here before but I did not have any luck with previous advice. Does anybody have the pinout for the 575M6 going on an Anytone 5555 Plus/N model radio? The consensus is that pin 4 stay open because of the 5V. What about Pins 1 through 3? I've just purchased this radio...

That's because there has never been another AM radio ever made that sounds better than a well tuned Browning Golden Eagle Mark III lol.

Well I finally got her going. It took quite a bit of "unmodifying". Two buttons were removed that were added for some weird switching as well as random resistors soldered all over the place that looked like everything was added by a three year old! Now back to original factory wiring. Thanks to...

Thanks for that! I will dig into this over the next day or so and let you know how I make out. I think I should be able to piece it back together with the help of these pics. Thanks again!!! 73 Tom KCINGR

That would be great!!! Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you but it's like to get this mic going if possible. Any pictures of the board would be greatly appreciated!

Hmmm I have a good assortment of hermetically sealed Korbitone elements which I have experimented with. All pretty good but I have to say that their is a noticeable difference in total tonal properties when comparing a nice sounding MC320 against most of my Korbitone heads. Sorry dude, just...

Maybe, or maybe just the care taken 30+ years ago with manufacturing a pristine quality crystal head microphone. Astatic just made good shit back in the day, plain and simple. It wasn't the size of the head, it was the quality control and the hand picking of organically found Rochelle salt...

Of course the original MC320 element in good condition (minus being stored in an otherwise less than perfect humidity/temperature condition) is untouchable in my opinion, the Korbitone element is the absolute best replacement for authentic audio properties, and taken into account it's almost...

Thank you for that! That helps with getting the mic wired correctly. I'm hoping that someone may have the board schematic, showing component layout as well. This thing has been hacked good lol.

This thread is a bit old but I picked up one of these Telex CB-73 mics and I am trying to get it back to factory. Whoever had this before hacked it with some strange mod that has two pushbuttons on the top of the mic. There's also added resistors on the mic switch which I'm still trying to...

So it's been awhile since the last post on this situation. Well I'm convinced it's just that Texas Star is now total crap. Steer clear of these amps as they are now total crap. I have alot of respect for Mike and I know he knows these amps but he is in denial just as Texas Star is as a company...

Just a quick update on the state of this repair. What I ended up finding was that my major drifting issue was with the main tuning dial itself. Just years of oxidation that took a lot more elbow grease with a fine burnishing stick and some D5 cleaning the contacts at the capacitor shaft as you...