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My choice would be the Washington also, unless I could actually inspect the 139 in person first. I have never owned I 139 but I have owned a 858 president Washington before. I’ve read on here and other places the the circuit board cracks very easily on the 139 during shipping. So that is a...

thanks to both of yall I have a copy of the service manual that I downloaded a year ago. but on an unrelated note I do need a copy of the cobra 29 service manual or the alignment procedure. im still going to do an alignment on the cobra 29 that yall helped me get working a little while back...

Big picture of underside controls of a factory 2000gtl 1984 model.

Bottom picture is the volume. Black wire far right, red is middle, left is white.

Yes it does.

Small update, I was able to find a used factory frequency display for it. Now I just need to finish recapping the radio. Also I have noticed the power output is not spread evenly between channels 1-40, the closer I get to channel 1 the more power it puts out, which is about 9 watts on am and...

I have never owned a 142gtl, but I do have 4 radios with uniden pc385 boards in them. 2 140 gtl’s and two old school 8719 McKinley’s.When used inside my house there is no noticeable warm up time for me. I live in Texas maybe if I left them in the truck on a really cold nite there would be a warm...

I did have one dealing with him, this time last year. Sorry to hear he passed away.

I know I have one somewhere I will find it

I agree I always thought of south Dallas as being the bad part of town. But like you said there are exceptions.

You da man Andy! I changed tr40 and the swr and modulation function both work now. Now I just need to recap the whole entire radio, which to be honest im not really looking forward to, but its the next thing that needs to be done.

Has anybody ever even gotten an honest 50 watts out of a cobra 29/25, pc68/78 style radio? I’ve seen a lot of debate about it, but don’t recall seeing any definitive answers.

Thanks Andy. I will look into all of it, I will trace some of the wires going from the switch just to make sure nothing funky was done with any of the wiring. And I will test tr40. I can’t find any evidence of channel mods ever being done to this radio, it does not have an mb8719. And all the...

Lol I’m trying to remember what I was using the hammer and punch for now,but it was not on a radio. I need to put them back in my tool box.

Small update, the cap kits I ordered from Klondike mike came in the mail the other day, so I will get started on that when I get some spare time. Does any one know any common faults as to why the modulation/swr meter doesn’t work. I put a brand new one in it and it didn’t fix it. I put red leds...

Bells sells them now as starbrite knobs, but they ain’t cheap, I bought some and found them to be flaky, as in intermittently turning on and off the actual led light right rings themselves are so cheaply made they should only cost 10 cents a piece...

No matter what computer or phone I use, or from where. when I try to login to the website I get a security certificate error, security certificate has expired, just curious if anyone else is experiencing this problem? I made some progress on it. tr34 was indeed bad, it tested bad using a...

Thanks I’ll look into that. This is what a guy on eham used to cure his pool pump rfi issues. I know there are at least two others on here looking for a solution alsoo Idk if this thing fits inside the conduit or where exactly you need to mount it or even if it will work for each I’m having...

Simple answer is yes there is a visually seen ground rod. Driven into the ground with a bonding clamp on the ground rod, with a bare solid copper wire going from the ground rod, back to the motor, I didn’t physically see the exact spot the ground wire is connected to the motor, but just for the...

Thanks for the advice about soldering on the counter. Sometimes I try to subscribe to the if it ain’t broke don’t fix it mentality, or is it if it ain’t broke fix it till it is? But I think the counter really does need to be recapped, I want this thing to last a long time. And I remember...