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I think I’m gonna get a Maco Y quad and call it a day. It’s cheaper, it’s lightweight, it’s dual polarity and I can afford it now. The coax will be here Monday. This will give me a completely new system. The 103HV is a bit tougher to get ahold of with my limited resources. Reviews on it are...

Yup, I don’t trust the quality control on the 99 at all. When I got it brand new last September, the 2 main pieces would not screw together. There was molten solder down in the threads from a manufacturer defect and I was very frustrated to say the least. I hit 4 places before I finally found...

I know there were a lot of questions asked, I promise this evening when I stop for the night I will fill them in more detail I really appreciate you guys advice. I’ve had this 99 up since about September of last year I bought it brand new and it’s 100 foot links of coax rg8x cable

I really wonder how come I’m not getting out any farther then. I know how far I’m getting out because I am also a truck driver and my wife talks to me sometimes when I leave the house she loses me at about exit 77 but I get on at exit 71, and I know that’s confusing but I am 4 miles west of 71...

No, I wasn’t saying my 99 only gets out four miles. I was just saying that’s how far away I live from the interstate. I would say I could probably hit 9 miles

Well in the meantime this thread led me to the gizmotchy. I am really intruiged by being able to run vertical and horizontal at the same time! If that works good, it would take a lot of guess work out of the picture. I didn’t know it even existed

Thanks a lot for you guys help. When you say Yagi I know what that is but should I be looking for something other than the Maco or am I making a good choice? Do you mean Maco 103 when you say Yagi. am always trying to save money and it would be nice if I could find something that would...

One might have to read this thread a couple of times slowly to understand what I have and what I am wanting to achieve. I am sorry for this, there’s just no easy way to try to explain it on a post. I live about 4 miles west of interstate 57, and that interstate runs north and south. Most...

The bridge rectifier tested good. Your troubleshooting mini guide made sense to me and I understood how I could have been testing it improperly. I printed out the schematic for the power supply Saturday morning so I could follow it with a small marker and began tracing the cause. I tested...

I might have possibly found my problem. I think I have a bad power transistor (the one that screws onto the back of the radio under the shield) and connects to the power supply. The base, emitter and collector wires run directly to the PS board. It is a Toshiba 2N3771 0320 transistor. I do...

That is some pretty good trouble shooting information, I will try that Saturday morning as soon as I get back in the town buddy. I appreciate it

TR602 was replaced. The new board came with it

I really appreciate everyones patience with me. I feel like a cat in a dog pen, trying to learn electronics. As you can tell, I am fairly new to this. For today I have to give up, I am a midnight truck driver and I have to get some rest. Believe me, I am a much better truck driver than I am an...

After I checked the 2 AC lines from the transformer I switched my meter to dc mode, then I put the black lead to the ground post on the rectifier and the red lead to the positive post on the rectifier. When I got zero, I moved the ground to chassis ground to make sure. Then I just double...

Sorry for the delay guys. My meter works great in DC mode. I get 9 volts on a 9 volt battery. I put the old rectifier back in. Still dead. 19 Volts going in from AC (in ac mode across terminals), nothing coming out. (In dc mode with black lead to ground and red lead to positive) This is the...

Yes sir, I did just that. I got 19.60 out of the transformer in ac mode, but in dc mode out of the rectifier I get zilch. zero. nothing

If those diodes are all forward biased, they tested good (at least in the old rectifier). My multimeter is very old, but it does have a diode setting. I get about .440 to to .502 across all 4, and no reading the opposite way (my meter does not display ol) LeapFrog, I tried running the ground...

I ordered another diode bridge about an hour ago but it won't be here for 6 days. It is not a common one, and I did not want to get one from the last supplier in case they have a bad batch. In the meantime I was wanting to see if I could bypass it and get power to somewhere and check if the...

No So far I have tried running the positive wire to the power switch but still got nothing as far as powering on the radio goes. I DID get power to the fuse block and power supply board now by doing that, but the radio still does not power on. I have it disconnected right now, I want to study...

So at this point, I should (should) be able to take an external power supply and hook it to the positive and negative leads once I find the value required and turn this radio on, since that is the bridge rectifiers job is to convert it to dc volts, right?