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Well several months ago I Sold the last of my CB Radios after being on the 11 meter band since 1965. I Sold a total of 159 CB Radios last year & & now just stay on the Amateur Bands or GMRS. I went & purchased a few sections of tower from the wife of a local SK & she gave me (4) radios that looked very rough & (2) of them were Ranger 2950 mobiles. Neither had a microphone but I have (44) D-104 desk microphones & adapters for the microphones so I can test just about any brand of 10/11 meter radio. I cleaned some of the dirt,dust,& spider webs off of & out of them & plugged them into a power supply & a dummy load with a frequency counter & wattmeter. Well they both come on,transmit & receive. One has a dead memory battery & that's all I can find wrong with it. It's even almost dead on frequency. They both swing to about 20 watts PEAK & they only key 1 watt on low power & 4 watts on high so they have not been screwdrivered it appears. Also the Clarifiers have not been tampered with either. The other one is off frequency quiet a bit & the display has issues. At first all looks well but after about 5 minutes the display readout starts fading away. The orange lights are nice & bright but the numbers are almost unreadable unless you look down from the top of the display then because looking straight at it & you will see nothing. I don't know if the display issue is a common issue since I have never had any such issue with the (3 or 4) I have owned over the years? I think I may keep the one that's working & get the memory battery replaced & use it for 10 meters when I'm bored here in the shack. Of course the one with the most issues has the good memory battery but the one I may keep is at least on frequency unlike the other one. Anyone know of the fix for the fading display? Thanks much & God Bless.

<blockquote data-quote="W4KVW" data-source="post: 812418" data-attributes="member: 15131"><p>Well several months ago I Sold the last of my CB Radios after being on the 11 meter band since 1965. I Sold a total of 159 CB Radios last year &amp; &amp; now just stay on the Amateur Bands or GMRS. I went &amp; purchased a few sections of tower from the wife of a local SK &amp; she gave me (4) radios that looked very rough &amp; (2) of them were Ranger 2950 mobiles. Neither had a microphone but I have (44) D-104 desk microphones &amp; adapters for the microphones so I can test just about any brand of 10/11 meter radio. I cleaned some of the dirt,dust,&amp; spider webs off of &amp; out of them &amp; plugged them into a power supply &amp; a dummy load with a frequency counter &amp; wattmeter. Well they both come on,transmit &amp; receive. One has a dead memory battery &amp; that&#039;s all I can find wrong with it. It&#039;s even almost dead on frequency. They both swing to about 20 watts PEAK &amp; they only key 1 watt on low power &amp; 4 watts on high so they have not been screwdrivered it appears. Also the Clarifiers have not been tampered with either. The other one is off frequency quiet a bit &amp; the display has issues. At first all looks well but after about 5 minutes the display readout starts fading away. The orange lights are nice &amp; bright but the numbers are almost unreadable unless you look down from the top of the display then because looking straight at it &amp; you will see nothing. I don&#039;t know if the display issue is a common issue since I have never had any such issue with the (3 or 4) I have owned over the years? I think I may keep the one that&#039;s working &amp; get the memory battery replaced &amp; use it for 10 meters when I&#039;m bored here in the shack. Of course the one with the most issues has the good memory battery but the one I may keep is at least on frequency unlike the other one. Anyone know of the fix for the fading display? Thanks much &amp; God Bless.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="W4KVW, post: 812418, member: 15131"] Well several months ago I Sold the last of my CB Radios after being on the 11 meter band since 1965. I Sold a total of 159 CB Radios last year & & now just stay on the Amateur Bands or GMRS. I went & purchased a few sections of tower from the wife of a local SK & she gave me (4) radios that looked very rough & (2) of them were Ranger 2950 mobiles. Neither had a microphone but I have (44) D-104 desk microphones & adapters for the microphones so I can test just about any brand of 10/11 meter radio. I cleaned some of the dirt,dust,& spider webs off of & out of them & plugged them into a power supply & a dummy load with a frequency counter & wattmeter. Well they both come on,transmit & receive. One has a dead memory battery & that's all I can find wrong with it. It's even almost dead on frequency. They both swing to about 20 watts PEAK & they only key 1 watt on low power & 4 watts on high so they have not been screwdrivered it appears. Also the Clarifiers have not been tampered with either. The other one is off frequency quiet a bit & the display has issues. At first all looks well but after about 5 minutes the display readout starts fading away. The orange lights are nice & bright but the numbers are almost unreadable unless you look down from the top of the display then because looking straight at it & you will see nothing. I don't know if the display issue is a common issue since I have never had any such issue with the (3 or 4) I have owned over the years? I think I may keep the one that's working & get the memory battery replaced & use it for 10 meters when I'm bored here in the shack. Of course the one with the most issues has the good memory battery but the one I may keep is at least on frequency unlike the other one. Anyone know of the fix for the fading display? Thanks much & God Bless. [/QUOTE]

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