Hi everyone,
I'm a new member, thank you for this forum.
About 8 years ago a coworker gave me this President Grant Export radio. I have not played with radios in some 30 years, so I did not have an antenna, and like a MORON loaded it with a light bulb, and made it not work. Stupid !, so I put it back in it's box (yes it is still a very clean radio), and now I want to make it work.
I have removed and tested the finals, they are fine, also the driver, ditto. I can make the radio key by touching the mixer IC pin 2, or the mixer transformer with a test probe or my finger (assuming the mic is keyed). When it keys, it is definitely making wattage, compared to a couple of other radios I have here, using a field strength meter.
This radio has a large heatsink on the finals, factory AM FM SSB Factory Roger Beep, Factory 3 lever power switch, unlike USA model radios.
Does anyone have a clue, from past experience maybe, as to why it only keys as described above?
Thanks for your time
JS
EDIT: Radio is like the one Hammer shows in this thread: http://www.worldwidedx.com/export-radios/45087-president-grant-frequency-modulation.html
I'm a new member, thank you for this forum.
About 8 years ago a coworker gave me this President Grant Export radio. I have not played with radios in some 30 years, so I did not have an antenna, and like a MORON loaded it with a light bulb, and made it not work. Stupid !, so I put it back in it's box (yes it is still a very clean radio), and now I want to make it work.
I have removed and tested the finals, they are fine, also the driver, ditto. I can make the radio key by touching the mixer IC pin 2, or the mixer transformer with a test probe or my finger (assuming the mic is keyed). When it keys, it is definitely making wattage, compared to a couple of other radios I have here, using a field strength meter.
This radio has a large heatsink on the finals, factory AM FM SSB Factory Roger Beep, Factory 3 lever power switch, unlike USA model radios.
Does anyone have a clue, from past experience maybe, as to why it only keys as described above?
Thanks for your time
JS
EDIT: Radio is like the one Hammer shows in this thread: http://www.worldwidedx.com/export-radios/45087-president-grant-frequency-modulation.html
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