Recent content by William G Ransom

Thanks for info Bob, it actually ended up being the squelch knob was no good, I put the center wire to chassis ground and it works now, thanks again

Thank NomadRadio, finally able to check it today, and I took the wire from center lug and tried it on each wire on the switch and nothing, the i touched it to chassis and receive came on as it should ,just no squelch now but now i know what the problem is i can try and locate the part and...

Ok my friend, I think this is the one here in picture, I did wet my finger and when I held across all the pins on that chip it did make a loud old radio noise like a old tuner radio sound, tell me something, can I unhook the squelch knob in anyway for now until I can locate the squelch knob...

Thanks Holydvr, I ordered the capacitor kit from mike today, and thank you NomadRadio for your info, man I cannot find that TA7222p transistor chip anywhere in this radio I been looking over and under my friend, but listen to this one messing around looking for bad cold solder joints like Holy...

Hello NomadRadio, everything works on the radio except the receive, incoming signal on a meter working, I can see the other person's carrier go up on meter when they transmit, just no sound, and after I poked around on a few solder joint alone the board and the powered the radio up, turned on...

Hello agian all, a little more info now on this ranger ar-3500 with no receive, I took the covers off and was probing around with my continuity meter on solder side of board around the speaker lugs I seen the continuity meter actually climbing like it was charging something up did not really...

Hello to all, I have a recieve issue on my Ranger AR-3500 radio,maybe someone could help me shed some light on what's going on, I have transmit with audio all bands, but there is no sound coming from internal speaker or when I hook up external speaker, nothing at all but a slight buzz or hum...

NewHello Mr NomadRadio sir, I have a recieve issue also on my Ranger AR-3500 radio,maybe you could shed some light on what's going on, I have transmit with audio all bands, but there is no sound coming from internal speaker or when I hook up external speaker, nothing at all but a slight buzz...

Hello to all, I have a recieve issue also on my Ranger AR-3500 radio,maybe you could shed some light on what's going on, I have transmit with audio all bands, but there is no sound coming from internal speaker or when I hook up external speaker, nothing at all but a slight buzz from external...

Hey Mr NomadRadio, good day to you sir, sorry for the delay on posting my finds on my mark ll, anyway it was my mfj 989b 3kw antenna tuner with built in watt meter, I ended up taking my bird meter out of my van and hooked it up and with 25w slug it was dead keying almost 4 watts talking to...

I'm going to check it out tonight and see if that was done, hopefully I can get carrier back down under 5 watts to preserve the life of this radio, I will keep ya posted on my finds, thank you again. 73

Heya NomadRadio, your the best of the best man, my baby is back up and running thanks to you my friend, thank you so much for all your info to help me get it going, definitely wouldn't have solved it without you man, everything seems to be working now, even the spot button has a tone now when I...

Thanks NomadRadio, Yes something crazy going on in there but I will change out those caps, he did this work to it over 20 years ago, then last i heard he moved to Florida, I'm going to swap out those caps in this reciever, its actually working really good this one is but changing the caps will...

Thanks NomadRadio, I'm going to go over all the caps I put in the transmitter, also when I changed the caps from the twist lock oem to single electrolytics, I just removed the wires on the positive leads from canister caps and attached the positive lead from cap to all the wires that was...

Hello agian NomadRadio and friends, well I got my mark ll transmitter to key up again, it was a bad 250 ohms 4 watt cement resistor, well I changed it to a new 250 ohms 10 watt resistor, and now I keys up with no watts out and the spot button is also working now, only sending a 9 pound...