Ok thanks every body for the info.... the radio in question is the old pc385 boarded president Mckinley.... in the last month I have recapped the radio using all new nichicon electrolytic capacitors... I think I changed 32 of those... and I also changed every tantalum capacitor 11 or 12 of them.... My test equipment consists of a 35 dollar dvom, a 50 ohm mfj dummy load, and a radio shack swr/ watt meter. I do not own a scope or a signal generator. And I have been testing it on a dummy load and an antenna.... even when connected to my dummy load It shows s3 on lsb.....
Let me give y’all the whole story... the receive has seemed a little low on this radio since I have owned it, I would have to have the volume 3/4 the way up to hear people good.so on Saturday I drove two hours one way to take it to a tech for an alignment...
told him about the issue with the volume, and that I had recently recaped the radio and would like a full transceiver alignment. He said the tx side was fine, and did not need to be messed with... so he did a receive alignment.... he also added a 1 micro farad capacitor on the solder side of the board to the emitter of tr36...this brought the recieve way up, now I only need to turn the volume 1/4 the way up, like my other pc385 radios. I have tried lifting a leg of this capacitor and it does not fix the S meter... whatever the receive alignment is that he did pegged my S meter... I mentioned this to him while the radio was still on his bench, he assured me the area his shop is in just has a lot of noise... so I just assumed he has s9 of noise in this area.... the alignment did help the receive, the radio sounds just fine to me, and still gets good audio reports.... the only thing it seems to have messed up is the S meter. The S meter was pegged all the time I’m just trying to match it to what my bone stock cobra 140 gtl’s S meter does.
Thanks for any help y’all can give me
