Modulation is low and distorted, no receive audio, no PA audio. Just put a new 2003 audio chip in it and the fact that it is modulating means that it's doing more than it was. If anyone knows what I should look at I would like to hear from you
When I first got the radio it had a blown protection diode which I changed out, the final was only putting out a watt of carrier no matter where I tuned it so I put a mosfet in there and was only getting 5<25 watts after a bunch of fiddling. So I was willing to play around with the modulator chip thinking maybe I could make that put out more power (lol) and my dumbass took out that little jumper that connects ground to the negative inverting input not even really looking at the chips pin out so yeah that thing went quick after doing that, it was a freebie radio so it's not like I lose my ass on this, but I really should have left well enough alone or tried some different mosfets because I know they vary widely in terms of gain. So that's about the history of it. The new chip is in there and it does something, and I changed out every electrolytic cap that is directly connected to a pin of that chip