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Galaxy 949

silverstreak

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Jul 23, 2006
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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.
 

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
 
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.
 

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  • @ heartbreaker3473:
    Hello gentlemen and Ladies. I have the dreaded RCI-2990 receive issue where my radio gets distorted when people get close to my location. I found the C90 Capacitor, but I can not for the life of me find the C89 capacitor. Can or does anyone have a picture of the exact location of C89 ? Thank you in advance, Wes
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    Wes, it's better if you start a thread on the main forum, more people are going to see your question.
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    Okay, sorry, will put in a forum
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    I put it in the general disscution help area and started a new thread. Thank you for letting me know.