Got another Saturn on the desk. The issue is low receive (it's got receive but just a little low).
Evaluation:
All the electrolytic caps were either high esr, shorted or dried up. Everything else looks great.
Replaced all electrolytic caps with new ones.
After:
Receive came up some but not quite there. If I place my finger on the top of TR8 then the static level jumps up from 0 to about 5 (which is my normal noise floor level here) but TR8 tests as good with right voltages.
Also, when changing channels, the channel display and receive corresponds immediately but the frequency counter kinda searches a second before locking on.
That's all I could find wrong after recapping.
Evaluation:
All the electrolytic caps were either high esr, shorted or dried up. Everything else looks great.
Replaced all electrolytic caps with new ones.
After:
Receive came up some but not quite there. If I place my finger on the top of TR8 then the static level jumps up from 0 to about 5 (which is my normal noise floor level here) but TR8 tests as good with right voltages.
Also, when changing channels, the channel display and receive corresponds immediately but the frequency counter kinda searches a second before locking on.
That's all I could find wrong after recapping.