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I have worked on hundreds of these over the last 50 years but when you say shipping damage what are the problems physical/electrical or both? I'm in Iowa just for the record.

Well, I read through its entirety and really didn't find any factual errors it's pretty straightforward forward I have been repairing since about 1969 and have with maybe a few short years in the commercial field but it seems pretty accurate. Of course, one could argue that there is much more...

Citizen Band (CB) radios have played a significant role in communication over the years. These radios, operating in the CB radio spectrum, have been used by people around the world for various purposes. In this essay, we will explore the history, uses, and impact of Citizen Band radios. Citizen...

I just got on CBTricks seems to be working fine

Well, you can't even begin until you reinstate control panel voltages and get the displays working and when you do you may find the radio coming back to life. You may find a bad connection or switch or something but first fix the lights.

So is the noise the fan or is the noise there when the fan is turned off and then when you turn the fan on high the noise increases? If you have any ground looping in the antenna system or the DC power distribution those will all add to the issue. Now if the alternator is the issue and any of...

How do you know the alternator is making the noise? Next, it is very hard to control noise being generator by using a long wire with a suppressor that far from the Alternator if there were any chance of doing that it would most likely need to be done at the alternator. I assume the noise you...

Ok I usually only make 1 mistake a year that was 2 mistakes unless I'm counting wrong then it could be 3 mistakes, but in my defense, I don't really care where he is I just remember watching one of his videos after being made aware of his channel and I never went back for more.

There are factors that can cause what you are talking about some of them are simply that the buffer stages in some radios are just dirty IE harmonically and although all IF and mixer stages in low-end radios IE "CBs" can be dirty you will most likely see a lot more of this kind of issue with the...

So it most likely isn't adjusting freq. on any channel?

If you use the schematics it will give all you need to know. The cap is in sections that usually have different values of capacitance but in the Tram version, I believe if memory serves me well these are all rated at 40uf @ 450 VDC and that value is specific to the circuits shown on the power...

Well, you obviously should spray the volume control and make sure it's clean this radio is an antique, and if it was recapped make sure C79 and C81 are installed in the right direction or polarity just some things you can check.

I would say send it in but I have at least a 4 month's backlog and patience would be a very good quality to have. I do try my best to look at all that is here and of course, some units are waiting for parts and others are restorations that take as much as a week or more just the nature of the...

Well, I remember in the good ole days when the FCC had certain requirements for a CB to be on frequency now this was before PLL circuits and OCXO'S and TCXO'S were not used in any old tube CB radios and the frequency tolerance was to 20hz one way or the other and the test equipment produced for...

I recently purchased a new F150 love this truck it's the 500HP version it's an all smiles and fast miles anyway I installed both the 2 meter dual bander along with a 2 meter dual band antenna on one side of the pickup it's mounted to a window bracket I made and the 11 meter antenna is mounted on...

If you have an audio signal tracer or scope, follow the yellow brick audio road back to the TDA2003 you should be able to go from the Dynamike control and trace back to the mic preamp and see an audio signal on the scope or like i said an inexpensive audio signal tracer. Schematics are helpful...

At this moment in time, I would be leaning towards the so-called Galaxy class syndrome as Nomad so elegantly called it. I have repaired about 10 thousand Galaxy class radios over the last 35 years and can confirm they will quit at any given moment and 99% of the time it's poor-quality...

I can show you how to get rid of it if you can unsolder a small surface mount part it will end the beep.

I don't know if anyone cares about this one way or the other but I had a customer the other day that asked while I was repairing his 880 if I could eliminate the damn beep so after I brought it back to life I did some circuit tracking and came up with this in about 20 minutes or so.

I don't know if anyone cares about this one way or the other but I had a customer the other day that asked while I was repairing his 880 if I could eliminate the damn beep so after I brought it back to life I did some circuit tracking and came up with this in about 20 minutes or so.