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Recent content by klj2497

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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    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
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    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...
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    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
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    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...
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    this is the Utica T and C 111 schematics
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    Okay thanks Nomad i tested an old junk cb radio that had similar kind of setup and it measured like the other one it looks good
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    Thats awesome Nomad, i didn't know that before. i will check it out. lol
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    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...
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    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...
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    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!
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    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
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    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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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! i have a nice volume in the radio one of The contact in the pot has two parts somehow they ended up on top of each other.
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    This radio has the alot of stuff wrong with it. It'll b worth it with push pull modulation.
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    Utica, Town and country 111 cb radio. shorting out.

    i found the volume pot was not working so i took it apart and cleaned it. it seems to be working now i still have to solder it in and test.