Recent content by doffo

LOL!! I never realized it till you mentioned it just now. I learned something new. Thanks for the laugh Nomad.

It was worth a shot. I got an older President Washington 858 chassis radio which took away several hours trying to troubleshoot. I purposely put it up high on a shelf in the garage where I need a ladder to get to it. :D Keeps it out of reach so I do something else instead of trying to find out...

That explains the very cheap quality inside a Texas Ranger TR-296 radio I have on the shelf. Least it works but only used it a couple times. :)

The grant ill keep as its my main radio under my desk, but I will give a heads up if I sell it.

They do ok. Better than the steaming pile turd of the President Jackson lol... From whatever year that was... 1980s I think? I got a black faced one and thanks to this forum, i was able to correct the receive on it.. There was another weird problem with it but can remember what it was. My...

I too saved the file. Always nice to have as I have a couple of Grant XL radios myself.

I was a kid when my Old Man's radio didnt work.. It was a 142 GTL radio.... No receive audio and im sure transmit struggled too...... He brought the radio to a local radio repair guy, and sadly... It is forever gone... This was in the 1990s... I fixed a broken 142 GTL radio in 2017 with the...

Last night conditions held on close to Midnight for me. Decided to jump to AM and was able to talk to 308 New Mexico and 1205 Colorado in the Rockies.

Sorry to hear. It hurts losing a fellow friend. Had another great ham radio operator pass from a heart attack while driving last Saturday..... :( Luckily he wasn't in traffic and it happened on the road to his house.... Life is just too short. Hope things get better for you in time.

Just had a flashback when I asked why SSB strong signals sounded so bad..... Least I was able to replace the few resistors and it made it ok....... Damn radio still sits on the shelf though... :)

Had fun making a handful of contacts around 9PM Central time. Channels were busy. :) Seem things have been going ok this last week so far.

Now that I think about it, My Galaxy 99v does randomly drop power... Comes back randomly. I did try to poke around the board, but it was still acting up. I will need to take a much closer look at each solder joint. Another Uniden PC66XL radio I bought at auction for a couple dollars wasnt...

Unsure if it will help, but maybe heat related? Possibly a cold solder joint somewhere? Gently push around the board with a plastic tool when it happens to see if the deadkey watts jump back up... Just an idea to try. :) Otherwise, hoping its not something else more severe.

Ugh..... Thanks for the tip. It wont be long before ours decides to give up. Noticed some black iron piping underneath this place...

You brought up a great point... One must ADORE the radio if they will go through the trouble to replace all the capacitors.... :)