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Reminds me like the old tracker style musics on the Commodore Amiga computer from back in the day. :)

For sure. I do keep it around 1.5-1.75 watts on AM for a carrier, and try not to do more than 10 watts on SSB. Need to still find that grant XL and try it again on SSB to see how it sounds.

I do appreciate the information so far. I just found it strange that on the one radio the Cobra 146 GTL, the audio comes out great out of the amp on SSB. Now that I think about it, remember that day BC Coyote when you said "That last radio you were talking on sounded much better." the other week...

To rule out the possibility of the amp going bad, I tried a Cobra 150 (Just a rebadged Palomar 250 amp), and it too behaves the same way on the audio sounding bad.

Been wondering what is the cause of the headaches. I have caught onto the fact that when I use either of the 3 radios I listed on the title of the thread, the audio becomes really bad sounding. TRC-449 or my Cobra 138 XLR, the audio sounds fantastic without the amp, but the moment you turn on...

I have been meaning to do the clarifier unlock, but unsure if I do the Method 1 or method 2 that I found online.

I second this. :) I have 3 of the radios, but would be nice to have the service manual on hand.

My wife had a 2018 Chevy Sonic RS Hatchback. I was able to run a Wilson Little Wil magnet mount antenna and did just fine. No noticeable RF noise that I could tell. Was great to have on the road going back and forth from Kansas to Nevada.

Sorry for the delay. I got sidetracked. :) So as you already did, I just desoldered, lifted one side of each. For both R119 and D30 I believe where I pointed at for the purple wire, I desoldered it and grounded it out, but follow the wire from your clarifier knob that when its fully turned...

The clarifier mod I did on mine seems different that the one on the link you provided... Let me crack open my President Washington and take some pictures. I swore there was a wire you had to desolder and solder it to a ground. One moment...

That is pretty great. Ive yet to cross into Africa. I need to go up more in the band and have a look from time to time.

I always wondered about that Delta Tune knob.... That actually answers it for me now :D

The smell that is given off by the old Cybernet boards.... Very musty lol.

Looking around, I found a thread here in the forum: Old uniden Grant PC409ac board That may be what you are experiencing. It isn't a guarantee that it is that specific capacitor, but in this day and age, it may be the time to recap. Otherwise, look for any cold solder joints underneath the...

I have about 5 more caps to do on that 13-893. What it is doing is that when you are in SSB either USB or LSB the RF meter goes up about half way. You can still hear some stronger stations coming in, but I also noticed the RF power lacking on LSB but then USB it is fine. I will have to save that...

Happy to report that 22pF worked. The higher values was actually sending it passed clockwise worse than before, so managed to try half of 40. and its now happy. :) You can tell the 4 crystals it mixes with have aged and have moved away from their frequency, so each 4 channels it moves the...

That is a good idea to put it on a little board by itself, then this way its easier to work with. For sure I may try changing out the 40PF to those two values you mentioned. I am looking through old CB boards for some lol. Fun stuff, but for the most part, if I can bring it just a bit closer to...

I appreciate it, but wont be necessary. When you say to put inductance with just the 1 crystal, like putting a resistor between it and ground? If so, how many ohms of a resistor we takling?

The crystal came in. I did put it in my base Cobra 139 for the time being as I know it works vs The Midland is having some weird issue on SSB (Currently recapping), but I could only get it as close as I could on frequency with the voice lock all the way to the right, and adjusting the...

Thanks for the reminders. Somehow time goes fast and these things slip! 73!