Aside form the wiring color code being different...
Do D36 is the TX diode....
This makes 2 boards with D36 cut...TX so the "Mod" is correct
What about orange wire on top of L17
Guys, it is increasingly difficult for me to use this forum, with my phone. I don't currently have any other internet device. That is part of the problem. So please excuse me. It's really bad on my end. It's very unstable & jumps around all over the place. Sometimes pics are not showing that I later find out are supposed to be there for me to view. When I try to reply to a post, it jumps to a different post. Landscape won't work & portrait view isn't much better. It's exasperating. I know a number of you have tried to and have helped me.. I got my question answered last nite when I found the resistor in question. Often, I can't even see who responded to me so I can respond back, in kind. I'm trying hard, but it's just way too phone unfriendly & I don't understand what that should be, at this stage of the game. I think more peeps use phones than computers..?
I know there are a couple of you I still owe replies to but this lack of site & phone getting along is really making it hard. I just tried to answer someone asking me "what about orange wire above L17. The page went crazy again so I couldn't, so far. What about it? I see 3 orange wires in the pic. I don't see L17 (or whatever # he noted). In the various replies, I've see several wrong pcb's posted, misidentified diode (D34), something about the "orange wire"??, info about stuff to look for or how stuff works, that was not pertinent, in my opinion, to the original question (yes, I understand the explanation that ancillary info is posted for the future benefit of others, however I disagree, unless it directly IR indirectly answers the original question, because I think it's somewhat confusing and I think that other info should be posted only when someone asks for that specific info. Don't get me wrong, some if it is good, useful info, but it's beyond what is needed to keep it simple in answering the question and it was adding to my frustration because, since I also discovered that I wasn't getting the pics that went along with some of those replies, so it made it sound like some wanted to show how much they know, w/o directly answering the question. Then, today, now I see some of those previously missing pics. That's not the poster's fault, I know, but I just trying to describe how things went for me.)
I apologize if I offended anyone due to how this has worked (or not worked) for me.
As of last nite late, there was one post that I didn't see the pic at 1st, but later did, and showed me where the hidden resistor was. I found it from being asked to take another pic further to the right, even tho at that point I didn't see the posted pic that pointed right to it, as I can see now.
And it also looks like some comments are referring to that resistor location and the resistor itself, as something else. I don't get that because I already posted last nite that the request I rcvd to look further to the right, led me to the very hidden (under wires) 187 resistor. It's not something else, it's that resistor. Altho I am still slightly puzzled by something which I haven't yet today had the opportunity to look at the radio to see. That is: in my pic of my board, as I already mentioned, if you look very closely, it appears as tho it is something like red red orange, but in one of the pics sent to me showing r187, it clearly looks to be a far different value resistor. I can't remember at the moment, but it looked like there was a black and/or green or some kind of dark bands?? As soon as I get a chance I'll take another look at the resistor itself & the 2 apparently conflicting pics to resolve that issue. They sure did look different tho... I'll be able to look on the schematic to see what value it's supposed to be.
By the way, the resistor, as shown I'm my pic, was open & that's what I was trying to find out because a previous mod had it all screwed up, half done, half undone & didn't work. Whoever asked me (ie told me) about the jumper on d35 or 36 (whichever it is, I'm not looking at anything at the moment), I already knew that and had already checked that b4 coming here (it was not jumpered, as it's supposed to be..). And as I already mentioned previously, for those who don't yet know, the zillions of instructions (destructions) splayed all over the internet, for many years, telling ppl to use pin 3 for the constant 8v supply, IT'S WRONG! DON'T DO IT! USE PIN 1, NOT 3. Using pin 3 can be eventually be catastrophic. There are many muds out there that probably just copied someone's original blunder about using pin 3. Don't do it. Always use pin 1.
Rant over
