President washington

[NY 38]

hello again, my next project is a Washington that's been in storage a few years, it had extra channels added with 3 switches mounted on one side for some reason there are no normal channels working just upper and lower, Ideas ??

 

[G-Golly Wally]

hello again, my next project is a Washington that's been in storage a few years, it had extra channels added with 3 switches mounted on one side for some reason there are no normal channels working just upper and lower, Ideas ??

First off welcome to the forum, secondly I have no clue, so I'm not any help. But there's several people on the forum that have a lot of radio knowledge and I'm sure they can help, or if you're like me and are in over your head with bringing an old radio back to life, there's some guys on here that can truly work mericals for you.

 

[nomadradio]

no normal channels working just upper and lower,

Would be helpful to know what your test setup is.

Do you have an external frequency counter that shows the frequency of the AM transmit carrier?

When you said "upper and lower" do you mean USB and LSB on the mode selector? If what you mean is that there is no transmit in AM mode, please fill us in.

Just not getting a clear picture of the fault yet.

73

 

[johnnytek]

hello again, my next project is a Washington that's been in storage a few years, it had extra channels added with 3 switches mounted on one side for some reason there are no normal channels working just upper and lower, Ideas ??

could be dirty switches, or, never done right, or, what they wanted. is it a 858 or a 8719.

 

[nomadradio]

is it a 858 or a 8719.

Sure enough. Would be a good start to identify which Washington this is, the 5-pin mike socket or the 4-pin? They are not the same on the inside.

73