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Wow! A return from the dead. If the name isn't available, naming it the Lazarus meter probably isn't a marketing strategy to pursue. Would seem strangely apropriate. It will appeal to the analog retentives out there. No digits, Found all the info needed to restore it here...

A principle called "Occam's razor" frequently applies to faults like this one. It states that all other things being equal the simplest answer it the most likely. When a fault appears following a repair procedure, a side effect of the repair is probably how the new fault occurred. In this case...

If you're going to attach it with adhesive, that works just fine. This permits unsoldering the pigail wire from the terminal pin on the insulating block. Unsolder it from each outer pole and connect them directly to the center pin of each coax socket. This tends to reduce the standby SWR the...

Nope. Gary's been gone a few years now. As in deceased. 73

I remember Wireless Marketing. A former employee of ours set up a bench in his basement and did their warranty repairs. Kept him busy until they went under in a few years. 73

A more-common scenario is that someone drove it with excess power and blew out the transistor that senses the radio's RF and closes the relay. The schematic calls it the "RF Sniffer". Has two NPN transistors. Most any generic small NPN transistors would probably do the job okay. 2N3904, 2N2222...

Got a request from a customer. Wants a how-to for the diode swing mod applied to a RCI2995DX. The surface-mount main circuit board has the same basic circuits as the older 2950/70/90 radios, just laid out differently. The bill of materials is: 1) 1N4148 small signal diode. There are any...

If you're willing to mount a fan on it. Simple rule to judge a safe operating temperature is to hold your hand against the heat sink surface. If you have to let go after 5 or so seconds, that's pretty much the upper limit. If you have to draw away quickly, that's too hot. Turn down the carrier...

I checked RF Parts, and they don't have an open-frame relay with a 12-Volt DC coil. Here's a link to the solution we use. https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/ameritron-al811-relay-headache-solved-my-way.265840/ 73

https://packaged-media.redd.it/av5h4bup3usg1/pb/m2-res_720p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&var=sgpssan&v=1&e=1775556000&s=5c064594f80341298dbc7e1fd6e66ab8314b6208 A cheap chuckle. 73

The Browning Mark 4A receiver has one crystal for each band it covers. The factory installed one at 22.82 MHz for channels 1-27 and 23.14 for channels 28-59. There was a crystal available to cover 32 channels below channel 1, 22.5 MHz. They were available for years from Barkett Electronics...

Q37 is the voltage regulator that provides a steady 9 Volts to the transmit/receive switching circuits. If it fluctuates like that, stuff gets twitchy. I became impatient with fixing this regulator circuit. You pretty much have to take Q35, D72 and D73 each loose to test them. We adopted the...

Whups! My mistake. Didn't look to see if the listing page had a box to specify quantity. The way the shopify page works a small box with the order quantity appears on the page. No box for quantity, no stock on hand. Sorry about that. 73

This circuit board has all the switches on it. For the price, buying the individual switches and the pain of replacing them seems a lot less attractive. https://stores.goldeneagleradios.com/galaxy-lever-switch-board-with-switches-for-dx2517/ He has individual switches, too. 73

There must be a McGyver way to evesdrop on that without a 'scope. But a 'scope is the only way I know to ID that fault. This radio demostrates the value of the 30-buck fleabay transistor tester. If your time is worth anything at all, it's a good bang for the buck. 73

Two of them in parallel, best I can tell. The driven element is an unbroken full-wave loop. We used a coax switch that grounded the unused coax of a 4-element antenna built on this model. Didn't seem to affect the match on the coax in use. Never could wrap my mind around that. 73

Inside. Separate coaxes feed into the building. 73

TIP42 with any suffix letter should be an upgrade from the original. 73

Not if the 7.5 Volt zener is at the top of its 10% tolerance range. 73

I'm accustomed to just pulling out Q30, 31 and Q33 to test each. D70 and 71 can be tested in circuit. The voltage on IC5 pin 5 has to be higher than pin 6 to make the radio receive. This should put at least 8 Volts onto pin 7. If the voltage on pin 7 is too low, Q33 will partially turn on...