Recent content by Desperado505

I don’t post much on here but I like reading good info from guys that know more than I do and I have a problem with a galaxy dx 2547 that maybe someone could give me a possible suggestion. Ok so picked up the radio off eBay and worked fine which was nice and first thing I did was align the pill...

Just read what you posted and not really understanding what you mean. If I unhook the probe it would go back to zeros on my freq counter. It doesn’t radiate a signal if that’s what your saying. It’s really just a preamp in a little circuit board with BNC connectors on each side for rf in and rf...

And I was never claiming to be a pro by the way just been in the hobby for 30 years and with the internet if you look deep enough a lot of the times you find smart answers and I can definitely say it works

Just read your post and was wondering if you read mine and either agreed or tried it. Just saying it works when you follow alignment info and have a low or no signal on the freq counter. Requires 12 volt input on it but that should be easy for most folks

Just posting this to help people out . Mike’s radio repair channel which is still on YouTube but no longer active has a great answer to most people’s problems when doing radio alignment with frequency counters. Basically it is a small preamp you can buy on eBay or Amazon that you hook up from...

I appreciate the effort but I have the schematic and have been going over it for a couple months now. I think I will have to test some components in the vfo area but it’s very tight in there to do anything. There’s a diode in there that I couldn’t quite get my probes on to get a good reading so...

Thanks for looking ill be checking back to see if anyone has any ideas.

Hopefully someone can help me out here....I have a 101b and the clarifier doesnt work. The light comes on but doesnt do anything after that. Ive been tracing schematics, surfing for clues on the net and been through the service manaul many times trying to figure this out. I cant adjust the...