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i fixed it by golly, i dang sure did. its all working. it had alot of problems like connections with no solder. cold solders. parts reversed in the schematic and the radio. 3 bad switches. all of the adjustments had to be tuned. it was a mess now its a Jem. lol
AWWWsome found the signal using a signal generator at 27.1660mhz i hooked up to the antenna jack. i only hear it with the BFO on. no signal with the BFO off. but i do hear a humm and some popping noises out of the speaker when BFO is off.. i didnt have any signal before so this is a first for...
I think i understand some now I have a fluke 70111 multimeter it has a 300mw dc selection i also have a rf cable for it i can switch out. also i have a old rca vacuum tube meter vdvtm? would one of them work? thanks for the help my friends
I have been resoldering alot of connections since last time. but still no receive. transmit is fine. I checked for a frequency starting at the antenna, and found 16.9204 on pin 4 ,of /L2 or, a15 i checked the fequency from the channel crystals. it is correct 8.460 m17 at pin 2 v2.but when i...
Hello, Believe it or not the rf is working now, i found the middle contact had a broken solder to ground. it measures perfectly now i was really happy about that lol. I think i found a bad transformer a15/L2 The antenna matching. it should read .1ohm but it measured shorted. the sams has the...
It stopped receiveing.... again. Easy come easy go, where it went to nobody knows. the rf gain and the squelch work so, all of them work except for the BFO knob, and switch. they probably work, but im not getting anything when the switch is on. i measured the 9.979mc crystal. it showed 16.972 on...
Lol, I took out the squelch fished the solder out. Now the squelch works! i heard my self through my house coming out of the Utica's spreaker from my browning in the other room. for the first time. all right! dyno mite!
Check this out i found a big chunk of solder inside the squelch pot. I tryed to heat it up and got some out. now its fallin down into the pot so im going to have to operate. lol i noticed a nice big blue spark thats how i found it..... dang, whats next? lol
I found the rf gain middle connector to ground. was a broken solder. Did not even have to take it out. now i get .6vdc in v1 at pin2 (.6vdc) and v5 pin 2 is 2.76vdc (3vdc) awesome. they were 40.vdc everywhere before lol but there still is no receive it may need to be checked/aligned again the...
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