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Thank you loose cannon, I will confirm everything you posted when I get home from work tonight. I’m still waiting on the scope probe I bought on eBay to show up, it should be here soon.
I have to post this or I will forget. Im getting 7.72volts on the middle pin of tr16 in tx. In rx just mv jumping around. I couldn’t find any mods in the d17,d18 area. In rx I get 4 something volts on I believe the banded ends of d18/d17, then in tx I get 4 something volts on both sides of the...
Thanks loose cannon,
I’m able to to trace rf/ 27mhz from pin 7 of ic3 to r62. I loose it right there. I’m about to pull my hair out from messing with this thing.
When I hook my rf probe to r61 I get nothing I am not able to peak l20. I have pulled both r62 and d14 they are both good. And r62...
In some YouTube videos I’ve seen people put 3300uf electrolytics in cobra 29’s and similar radios, on the dc power jack... but on the rest of your questions i can’t help you.
I’m still grasping at how all this stuff works, and how all the parts work together. I did make a small discovery. On pin 1 ic3 I have 17.755mhz on pin4 10.240mhz and on pin 8 27.255. I’m still struggling on tracing the signal. I feel like it’s close to working though... if only I actually knew...
Thanks for your help Andy, the schematic I have been looking at is euro radios redraw from cb tricks, it’s the easiest one for me to try and interpret.
I haven’t really had a chance to mess with it any since yesterday morning. Other than I got the rf probe built now
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