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yeah definitely a good price for that radio! on the service manual, that's just the ranger way. they intend that manual to be used with every iteration of that board/radio and they just expect the tech to know how to interpret it. i work on quite a few of these radios, but i really only see...

Yeah ol' Stu sure seems to be trying to cram himself right into the hole that was left by the sudden departure of that one guy. You all know the one. LC

yes your best bet is to contact the homeowner or the property management company that rents the house out. if none of that works, then you might try using an old galaxy radio with every limiter clipped feeding into a good old fashioned Cb competition style amp. you don't care about receiving...

Ira. Do us a favor and pull that little brown two conductor plug (most likely green and yellow wires going to it) that is just to the left of the mirror board by the driver and final. (i think its J22) this will disconnect power to the amp portion and you can now see how much power your radio...

Ronnie, This is how i figured out the dual final mod for the 959 many years ago. do be careful though, as the jumpers are not all shown in the diagrams and can confuse things. also, that little coil needs to be converted from a 7 turn coil to a 4 turn coil. LC

So i was going to post a link to a kit on ebay, and then i realized they are YOUR KITS for sale! LOL LC

Eldorado828, I feel your frustration! Yes, you may have a shorted component that goes from the B+ line to ground, but because this is a Texas Star amp there is another very common possibility. you may have a component lead on the underside of the board that is too long, or one of those...

what's the number on the coil?

here ya go: https://stores.goldeneagleradios.com/crystal-7-3450/ LC

not sure there was ever a 6 inch spring mudfoot. maybe but i can't remember ever coming across one. the ball mount is 2 inches and the spring is 4, making it 6 total inches. LC

most likely the final or it's associated bias diode are bad, but that's just guessing. if you want to try installing a final you can get one here: https://stores.goldeneagleradios.com/2sc1969c-hg/ you can also remove both the final and the bias diode (thing that bolts to the front of the final...

I didn't really find anything on amazon, but here is something you can get for less than 100 dollars that should work for a beginner. https://www.ebay.com/itm/286597425513?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5336136228&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 so, this will allow you to input...

HavaV10, Do you have a signal generator? if so, there is an adjustment you can make (well you can make the adjustment either way, but the sig gen lets you confirm that you haven't lost any significant sensitivity). Ranger radios all have this issue to varying degrees and it has to do with how...

the service manual on cbtricks.org for the realistic TRC-450 should have an IC voltage chart in it, where you can see the correct voltages of each pin on the MB8719 and UHIC-007 vco chip. measure the voltages on both IC chips and let us know what you find. pin 10 on the PLL might be different...

the absolute cheapest RF sampler you can build? well, it may not be fancy, but you can wrap a few turns of insulated wire around the wire going to the antenna jack of the radio and attach a scope probe to each end of the coil that you made. LC

you should not have to have your clarifier turned off center in order to receive and transmit at the same freq. if you have to, this means that your clarifier is still locked and you haven't adjusted the TX trimmer resistor correctly. when aligning this board, specifically the PLL/VCO section...

wait, is the US version of the washington modifiable for extra freqs? i thought only the European version was modifiable. LC

the "1 khz tone SSB tuning" trick should only be used on the IF section (7.8mhz). the 34 mhz pll/vco section should be tuned using a freq counter at the TP. this method works pretty well and the reason you can't just set those cans for exactly 7.7985 and 7.8015 is because the crystal filters...

this is for the LT but its the same board: https://cbtricks.org/radios/uniden/grant_lt/ also the same as the 148GTL. LC

HavaV10, You're most likely not going to have the test equipment required to get VR2 set "correctly" but you can most likely just turn it to about half way and you'll know if this was your issue. the easiest way would be while listening to a SSB signal that is strong enough to cause the...