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I just got a virgin galaxy 959. I love it. Compared to the new 148 it seems not a fair comparison. Although on the oscilloscope the peaks looked better on the cobra. They looked more picture perfect. The galaxy they look kind of short and fat. I don't want to mess this radio up by hacking it so...
I have the opportunity to get one of these radios for a good deal.. I'm sick and tired of dealing with these new cobra 148.. every one its right..very poor.. when it worked it worked fairly well.good clean.but very fragile..one wrong touch and the radios go hay wire. Im no pro by any means but...
Some how I got talk back all the sudden, I think this is what's making it modulate.. I look at it on the scope and I have pure square waves..but.. I had to change the am power trimmer broke, I had a sweet 5k trimmer subbed and tried 1k2..
I put in a larger resistor 3k3 and tried the carrier, I...
Hey I just did this mod, once you is cathode of d55 for the new v+ for the drive does the cathode become the new tp?
Also when I did this I get a modulated carrier when I key the Mic..I don't understand, it might be my sampler picking something up?
Well... hmmm..I used 20x 1k 1 watt 1% metal film resistors to make 50 ohm 20 watt d load, I have that on surface mount copper clad,I made this, it's inside a Hammond enclosure. The rf sampler.. lol is on copper clad, 2 ge diodes opposing to gnd, into 7pf into 47 ohm resistor into the other half...
Ok everyone, with 1000hz tone from my Mic the first one is what I have from Am and the second from Ssb (lower I believe.)
I did some tinkering with the scope and correct me if I'm wrong but trigger its too keep the view from scrolling? In not sure what the tech term for that is?
Does this look...
Thanks for the compliments, this is all feeding my addiction do well :). The scope I'm using is a bk precision 2120b I think. It's the one with out the counter. The reason I wanted this is because I work in south Georgia in the ports pulling boxes out for road drivers in this port you will find...
Lol! My bad, I got everything hanging from everything, I already put everything up but ill get to it. I'm like hanging from one leg holding a radio in one hand lol, as for just my voice does it look decent?
The carrier it's set low of amplification, the peaks are not distorted or over modulating? It is also wide banded. It is shown using rd sampler I built into dummy load I also built.
Hi everyone, just got my first scope at 29 years old, thks to it I was able to wide band my 148 for direct injection. But I'm still figuring t the scope out.
Does this look close to 100%?
I know my post doesn't directly apply but every attempt I've taken with the fet amps splatter like crazy, I haven't tried this yet but it can't be too much better than the 75. Are the 2 fets in series or parallel? If they're parallel might be neat but mosfets are voltage controlled, at 13.8...
Still got problems, I picked up another one from the "local cb repair...." if you call him that, I just score boogers off him, got another one of these for 20 bucks, it was off freq by 40 channels,,10 pin of audio chip was grounded hehehe
I got it going but every time I do the tx mods it jacks...
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