Hello Andi, thanks for all, and i am truly happy you did not waste your time with my issue. I am glad the radio works, i even got a record of its transmit audio and it's outstanding.
I do have another 148GTL-DX from 1981 the second i bought from a friend, literally untouched (with the exception of the lamp replacement) imagine that, it even has the CH9 and this particular one had an awful FM RX, L6 coil had to be tuned to get a normal FM receive (it sounded like i want to listen to an FM signal in AM), so this issue is solved, i'll have to realign the whole machine anyway. While i was at it, i replaced the meter window as it had scratches, and i don't like scratches.
Now I have a last issue before realignment, which is -I know not that big of a deal as lots of folks hate it anyway- the roger beep, and just as the SWR feature, it's not that needed after all, but since it's there i want it to work.
It does work in fact, but it's silent. It's doing it's job, i hear the time it lasts, so it works fine except it does not give a tone, it's a "silent beep".
Any hint ? I guess the audio part of it is not going to the mic path, what do you think ? It's a simple circuit i should find out eventually...
