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Just picked up one of these on FB Marketplace. A channel mod was already done with a dpdt switch, center off. Got is super cheap because someone had try to pry the right side of the metal faceplate off. I have glued it back in place and the glue is curing. I will post pics after I put it back...
Update! 2023-10-04:
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now just add the proper folder after the url and you should get right in:
Or click on the links in the Sunday post.
ex for the CB site:
http://robco.ath.cx/cb
The links should now be working.
The short version is there were two of my internal sites trying to share port 80.
Thanks again for your help and patience, and hit me up when things fail.
Rob
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And for your trouble, here's a bonus work-in-progress:
Fishing Charts for Lakes and Reservoirs...
Here are the official, 2021 "homes" for 'my' mod websites. I apologize that they move annually, but my ISP really really doesn't enjoy self-hosting in the home.
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That baked resistor is a casualty of over-drive...
Why do they put those silly power level switches in there, anyway?
I am no expert, but the first thing I do when I am re-furb'ing an inexpensive leenyer is pull that prone-to fail / prone to cook mess out of there and bypass it with an adequate...
AM can, indeed, be improved considerably. But nowhere near the quality of a high-level AM modulated radio such as a Cobra 29 or Cobra 148. If you want to talk on a CB, buy a CB.
If all you are seeking is 11m access, just leave the radio alone. Buy a vintage 148 or something similar.
11m performance (a misnomer) on this radio AM mode is abysmal.
Examine photos of 2995dx's of that vintage.
The reason you cannot find those knobs is that they are not stock.. the one that is bugging the shiite mooslem out of you is the stock knob.
In fact, it looks like the knobs had some sort of faux brushed aluminum cap put on them.
ATTENTION GOLDEN SCREWDRIVERS!
Clickee-Clickee now to go to a copy of the full site with pics, pdf's and goodness.
In a couple of hours, you can even clickee-clickee and get to a copy of the technical information previously stored on cbtricks, too.
Thanks for shopping at RobCo, disco citizens!
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