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I saw a Magnum P I episode where a mic "seemed" to be coming out of a radio shack scanner, and Magnum was transmitting for help off this setup. Then, Rob Lowe on 911 Lone Star was receiving, yes receiving, signals from his EF Johnson Ranger transmitter there in his living room. And I think there...
Going thru my notes, i found an old trick my elmer showed me. And it works. I paralled two 11.325 mhz crystals, and the darn thing aligned right up as if i had just the 11.3258 crystal in there. Until the correct crystal comes in, i can sleep at night knowing the clarifier is a 1 pm and not 9 pm.
OK, removed 8v source from clarifier. No change. But now, I'm thinking, Nomad cant be off. Well, it does seem to be tuning. But I think I found the problem. I don't have another Madison to pull parts from, but I do have 148 cobras for parts. And I keep reading Madison and 148's are identical...
Nomad, thank you. Been awhile since we talked. I will relook the tuning but almost sure its not this. The radio was heavily butchered. There was even an old DX FM module in there. I recall having another base doing this 10 khz off thing, and the cause was a switching diode or varactor pulled...
I always get the really weird ones. Bought a basket case Uniden Madison off ebay. Mods everywhere. Undid all I could figure out. Was missing the 11.3258 crystal so I added that. All LEDs burnt out (AM, USB, LSB, CH9). Channel LED missing. Mic and RF gain pots missing. Speaker and PA jacks...
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