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If you can, get a picture underneath the radio near the PLL. Just curious if something looks out of place or added.

That crystal also looks to of been messed with at some point. Don't think its quite what has been giving grief but making sure its an original part to the radio.

What is throwing me off is that capacitor soldered on the pack of crystals onto the resistor? I don't see other 142 GTLs with that. I 2nd clearing up that corrosive glue. That is where my 142 GTL went bad since it did a number on the diode there. (I forget offhand what replacement diode was...

Please... I am curious... Why even bother to do a 2 watt deadkey to 80 watts?? Reason I ask is because that is the same radio that slapped this poor Magnum 2000 beyond the 9th dimension. :D Nice burnt resistors inside it.

I will be glad to sell it off if I run into it again this year when I go to visit my folks in Nevada. I still think people will pay ridiculous money for it. :D lol.

I think they do not offer a non-SDR radio. The Icom 706 successor in the SDR fashion is thee Icom 7300.

The moment you said computerized nightmare radio, my mind flashed back to when I bought that steaming turd back I think in 2018 or 2019 off eBay for a cheap price... Last I recall seeing it was in my storage unit, but I think someone might of snagged it outta there the last few years... oh...

I can't and will not even guarantee the radios I pulled out. :) By the looks of the board is what I was going by.

Oh oh!!! The Realistic TRC-450 and I think the base model was the TRC-459? ***I wonder if there are revision changes between them that would consider them not the same.

140 GTL mobile, Monkey Ward 719 (I think its 719), President Grant (Not the one with the power plugin that is vertical, but the one that is horizontal) President Washington base radio (The one with the 3 buttons on the bottom-right). Same goes with the Uniden label radios that look like the...

Oddest conditions for me in a long time. I at least did talk to 749 out of California on 36 LSB a bit after 5 PM.

I usually was just careful putting the ribbon back in by using my finger/thumb of each hand onto either side of the ribbon cable carefully pinching (Dont have long fingernails.), then push little by little downard on each side. Surely it should go back in? :)

Good timing. Mother Nature is strange but strange enough was finally able to talk to ya! Good stuff. Thanks for the contact.

Conditions are very strange today... Stations are either strong one moment, or everyone is non existent on 37 LSB. Will keep an ear out on 40 USB.

I dont think its your case, but I had a PC68XL that was 5 KHz higher than the read channel. Turned out to be the crystal replacements I bought were the culprit. Grabbed one from a spare parts radio and it worked fine once again. I did fix a 142 GTL a couple years back where LSB worked, and USB...

Its rough here today. There was a handful of AM stations hammering. Will keep monitoring for the next couple hours.

I did went ahead and bought some 33 ohm resistors and 100 ohm resistors to replace them. Also some screws/lock washers. Probably all be here in a week. I think what ultimately happened to the amp is that someone used it with a very small power supply. The 20 amp fuse has a burnt color/bend on it...

Had a good contact with 428 just now. Conditions were good today as they were yesterday on this side. Heres to hoping 2026 is another good year for our radios.

The site loads, but I think whoever runs it has it off. I can't even sign up for it as it says "Sorry, you don't have permission for that!" Hope it isnt a permanent thing and maybe some issues need sorting out.