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Galaxy 949

Discussion in 'General CB Services Discussion' started by silverstreak, Aug 16, 2019 at 5:41 AM.

  1. silverstreak

    silverstreak Member

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    My friend a older CBer with bad eyes hooked a AMP backards to the radio and now when you turn the variable to high power you get about two watts dead key and swings to about 13 cant get any more out of it.Any ideas what should be checked?He is low income and I am going to repair this free for him if I can.Any help would be great.


     
    #1 silverstreak, Aug 16, 2019 at 5:41 AM

  2. nomadradio

    nomadradio Analog Retentive

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    That's more than a little odd. Usually a faulty amplifier hookup either causes no trouble, or blows out the radio's final altogether.

    Did you ever see how much power it would deliver before this hookup problem?

    On your meter?

    If someone had already "tweaked" it before the amplifier incident, maybe this is all the power it was giving him before?

    73
     
    #2 nomadradio, Aug 16, 2019 at 6:05 AM
  3. silverstreak

    silverstreak Member

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    It was working fine before he hooked it up backwards to the AMP when I got the radio seal were still on the radio.I am going to pull the final and test it.
     
    #3 silverstreak, Aug 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM
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