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Thanks, Robb. I traced it back to Q44. The trace was pulled away from the board, slightly. Re flowing the solder did not fix it though. Q44 was actually bad. It must have gone bad from having the bad connection. She's back in business. PS: This is a fresh out of the box radio. Arg...

I handle general radio work whereas my vacationing tech normally handles the tech stuff.

Umm

IC1 checks out, including pin 8, which adjusts in voltage as squelch pot is increased. Suggestions?

cannot engage squelch (constant static). Squelch pot is adjusting correctly 0-50k. The problem is on both AM and SSB, however I check Vr3/d15 and vr4/d35 anyway, and they're good. Should I be looking at IC1 or possibly a transistor? I don't have a voltage chart. Suggestions?

Well, this took care of part of my problem. After doing to mod, the radio transmits as it should. However, the receive still does not work properly. Everything comes in garbled,though the meter response as it should with respect to RX signal. Wonder how do bypass the entire ST in RX and RX...

I think that deals with a different problem, however it's such a simple task that I will go ahead and remove the 2 caps and short the 2 legs of the ic and we what happens.

Difficult explanation...I'll briefly describe symptoms and skip to the weird stuff. TX modulation drops to nothing after a few seconds of keying. RX audio is faint, though the meter shows RX is working. Sounds like it's off frequency but isn't. Turn on SoundTracker and it improves the RX...

cant log into the forum.

Thanks for that input.

Bad connection at J7 - problem resolved.

Been a member of cbrricks for years. I normally log on quite often. However, not logged on for probably 3-6 months. Now I can't. It says database error. Please don't respond with random guesses. 1.Is anyone else able to log onto the FORUM? 2.Do you know why I am having this issue today?

RESOLVED *** New radio. Plugged in. Turned on. Upon plugging in microphone, radio would shut off. Inspected the mic board. Two legs on the transistor of that board were touching. Cleaned up solder. Problem FIXED. Plugged mic in and keyed up. Just one problem, No Talkback. Everything else...

The frequency expansion is the same. Without seeing a pic of the board, I can't tell you the hi and low carrier adjustments and the 2 modulation adjustments. However, from personal experience (a lot of it) I wouldn't touch the modulation pots in the new version (2015 to present). They are...

Hey Sonoma, thanks for the note. I'm doing well. I didn't know about your wife. Sorry to hear that. Yeah, sometimes when you're fixing up your own radio for fun it's relaxing. Other times....arg. I do keep the guys at cbt busy sometimes. Normally, it's because a Galaxy came it with some...

Jeez, Nomad. I had no idea that kind of crap was so out of control. By far, it has consistently been the best resource over the years for me. Sonoma, jersey, Laz, -andy, all these guys have saved me many hours and taught me a great deal. Things have slowed down so much that I'm getting...

To answer your question: No. Removing Q39 will not cause the radio to have no output. The boards you're referencing are essentially the same. Theres a possibility that when you removed Q39 (assuming you de-soldered it), you accidentally soldered together two solder pads or pulled a pad up...

I like them. But the one think I hate is the controls. The volume takes about 10 seconds to turn down 20% (beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep) wait, still too loud, beep beep beep beep beep, ahh, screw it, MUTE. YES, ILL TAKE A BIG MACK, AMD SORRY ABOUT ALL THAT NOISE. Then, to...

Wait, I just saw this. The add on eBay is my ad, duh. The one that is cheaper is the old model. No MOSFET, bad filtering, no noise blanker, no rf gain control, no high/low power. If you did buy it, it was from me. :).

Well that wasn't fun. I think I spent more time getting the software and driver installed and working. Camaro, thanks for the I put. The whole "factory" check box to lock and unlock the test mode was helpful. The soft aware link enabled me to at least do that. I installed the full software...