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Right...But you kinda missing the reason for doing this.. If he has no power going into one of those transistors they won't work. Thats how you first check for rf amp problems... first make sure the thing is getting voltage.... then check if theres rf coming out of all 3 stages and trace it...

First thing you do with a problem like this is identify the area that has the problem..... this case its the rf amp. The next thing you would do is check to see if the final and driver are getting voltage.... check for power on the center leg of the transistor. If you have power, then you have...

Not too much you can do...... its carrier squelch in cb's. The squelch circuit is based on a "threshold setting".... once a signal reaches a certain threshhold or strength, a switch is activated that lets audio out to your speaker. The radio is recieving the whole time and the static is...

Your doing alot of excess jumpers for very little gain in power. Jumping 12 volt power into the buffer isn't the best for the radio.... and it doesn't net you alot. Usually when you jump over you also have the modulation going into the buffer... this will give more forward swing ( a bit...

Its not going to short out or anything..... the base is the input or when talking about mosfets it would be the gate. Its called a base with bipolar transistor and a gate with mosfets. Either way its your input.... there is normally supposed to be a resistor between the gate (or base if you...

Yea it looks good....The only part you have to be carefull with is jumping L15 to L17...What your doing there is jumping in power.... removing JP32 is removing the 8 volt power to the predriver. The whole idea here is tol remove the power to this part of the rf amp and add it in from another...

The Road Devil is a good mic.... but Superstar makes a LOUD echo power mic thats really inexpensive... Superstar DM452. Its more than likly at least 1/2 the price of the Astatic mic. You can also turn the echo all the way down like alot of guys do up here and its just as loud. The Astatic...

Watch those car phone chargers..... I've seen alot of radios come into the shop where guys have used something similar to hook their radios up to a cigarette lighter jack. After they try pluggin it in the radio won't work. Usually when this happens its because they are not using a plain old...

For a barefoot radio I still prefer a 1969 just because of the higher carrier power thats possible. I prefer a 10 watt carrier swinging to 40 watts much better than a 5 watt carrier swinging to 40 watts or more. Truckers prefer that "squelch breaking" power of a higher carrier up here. I...

Thanks for the props.... Is it that time of the year again...... Jacksonville? You guys in the US have it good. I would love to check it out... actually I would'nt mind trying out the barefoot class or maybey 2pill class... that would be cool. Let me know how it goes.. I'm hoping I can get...

How did he do using that setup? I can't believe the amount of work some guys put into a keydown truck.... just to load it on a trailer... take it to one spot and key for a half a minute. I can't imagine the hours this guy put in getting the antenna set up. The ac stuff inside alone must have...

Now that I look at it again... it looks like it is 2 full wave antennas and not folded dipoles. He tried to make 2 cophased fullwave groundplane antennas work on a mobile. Wild.

I remember seeing pics of this van a while back.... pretty wild looking machine. If I were to guess as to his setup.... its looks like he is running 2 cophased fullwave folded dipoles on each side... he has 4 radials, 2 on the front and 2 on the back of the vehicle. He put them on an upward...

I agree... you can pick up a small 1 pill 1446 amp thats only 4 inches long, 3 inches wide that will bolt under the radio (or on the back). Its just a small basic amp .... BUT its out of the radio. Besides that I have never seen a stinger board the had a decent heat sink on it. Cutting out...

Sounds like you have grounding problems to begin with. If I'm reading this right, the squeel goes away when you ground the antenna good... if you take the ground off the squeeel comes back... If this is the case the radio is getting a ground connection through the coax braid/ground. I'm...

If you can't find the 7 volt battery another option would be using a zener diodes to get the voltage around 7 volts.

Boy... I haven't stopped over at this part of the forum in a while... this thread sure did take off in a different direction than I thought it was going. But your right Ken..,.thats the problem with reading posts... they don't capture someones emotions. Most of the time a post can be read...

Either lower your swing alot or raise the carrier... your getting amp squeel. Personally, I go for a little more carrier out of my amp than whats normally talked about on this forum. The way I figure it, ... if I'm getting more range from the carrier, my audio doesn't need to be so loud. There...

My PAL 201 b does about the same thing for output power... I haven't hit the 300 watt mark though but I'm taking it easy on it. It needs a rebuild. But its ts pretty much the same amp as the palomar.

My PAL 201 b does about the same thing for output power... I haven't hit the 300 watt mark though but I'm taking it easy on it. It needs a rebuild. But its ts pretty much the same amp as the palomar.