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    Not my first rodeo but thanks for your concern. Yeah. Ebay is where it came from seems like most non working radios come from fleabay...
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    Best you can do is just be careful not to move the wires so much. solid copper can only bend so many times before it just breaks. And...
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    From what I understand.... Capacitors leak and eat up traces. Unless I really valued the Super Base, I wouldn't want to recap the whole...
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    doffo reacted to vswr's post in the thread Repairing a miserable Motorola 555. Help! with Wow Wow.
    When I got this radio, it was receiving fine but had an intermittent transmit problem. When I decided to reflow the board, I lost...
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    doffo replied to the thread new 980ssb uniden.
    I got it posted. Just nice having pictures to go by. I will use the radio tomorrow as long as conditions are ok to see how it does on...
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    doffo reacted to vswr's post in the thread new 980ssb uniden with Like Like.
    Cant wait!
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    doffo reacted to FlyBoy50's post in the thread new 980ssb uniden with Like Like.
    That's why I bought them because I remembered hearing the Washingtons were good SSBers when I was getting back into radio again. But I...
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    doffo replied to the thread new 980ssb uniden.
    I hear that. One radio that will always be close to me is the slant face Sears Roadtalker radios. I need to bring one back out soon and...
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    doffo reacted to FlyBoy50's post in the thread new 980ssb uniden with Like Like.
    It's been too long ago since I read a thread on how to identify a 1st from 2nd gen radio by looking at the back of the radio but the 2nd...
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    I thought I had done the clarifier unlock the other year on the Uniden 980 SSB, but I must be thinking of some other radio I had. I did...
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    doffo replied to the thread new 980ssb uniden.
    I want to say its a 1st gen, but I will upload a picture of it soon. I just got done doing the clarifier mod for it. (I did follow the...
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    doffo reacted to FlyBoy50's post in the thread new 980ssb uniden with Like Like.
    Do you have the 1st or 2nd gen where you can easily quite that awful channel change beep?
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    doffo replied to the thread new 980ssb uniden.
    I hear ya. :) I now hooked up the radio, and realized I never actually did the clarifier mod for it... (I must be thinking of some...
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    doffo reacted to FlyBoy50's post in the thread new 980ssb uniden with Like Like.
    I still have my 1st generation 980 hooked up in my house and the display still works good but in the car not so good. I'm afraid to...
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    doffo replied to the thread new 980ssb uniden.
    It was a few years ago, but I was shot down pretty quick when I was inquiring about a service manual for the radio. :D I at least tried...