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Been busy as hell with work recently 60-70+ hours a week....   recently caught a break and built the external case for the galaxy. vacuumed it out and plugged her in and hooked up my SWR meter. Everything seemed fine except figuring out where I wanted to be on all the settings. after a few minutes digging around in this rat-hole I call A brain I figured it out for normal cb operation.

I let it warm up on power for a few minutes to make sure nothing was going to puke from just being hooked up. after about 8 minutes I grabbed the mike and turned the squelch down. at 3 am here its not unusual to hear nothing but dead air on every channel, so I found channel 16 which is always dead so I wouldn't bug any one.. hit the transmit button and.....

it squealed briefly, pegged the needle, then started popping power surges about 1 per second.   now the needle is stuck on 30db

on the bright side the freq counter seems to work..... and it will power up.

now to plan My next move...   I think digging up a local cb shop may be a good idea. unfortunately I don't think there areany decent ones in this area outside of truck stops.

<blockquote data-quote="RustDemon" data-source="post: 319146" data-attributes="member: 21460">Been busy as hell with work recently 60-70+ hours a week....&nbsp;&nbsp; recently caught a break and built the external case for the galaxy. vacuumed it out and plugged her in and hooked up my SWR meter. Everything seemed fine except figuring out where I wanted to be on all the settings. after a few minutes digging around in this rat-hole I call A brain I figured it out for normal cb operation.&nbsp;I let it warm up on power for a few minutes to make sure nothing was going to puke from just being hooked up. after about 8 minutes I grabbed the mike and turned the squelch down. at 3 am here its not unusual to hear nothing but dead air on every channel, so I found channel 16 which is always dead so I wouldn&#039;t bug any one.. hit the transmit button and.....it squealed briefly, pegged the needle, then started popping power surges about 1 per second.&nbsp;&nbsp; now the needle is stuck on 30dbon the bright side the freq counter seems to work.....&nbsp; and it will power up. now to plan My next move...&nbsp;&nbsp; I think digging up a local cb shop may be a good idea. unfortunately I don&#039;t think there areany decent ones in this area outside of truck stops.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RustDemon, post: 319146, member: 21460"] Been busy as hell with work recently 60-70+ hours a week.... recently caught a break and built the external case for the galaxy. vacuumed it out and plugged her in and hooked up my SWR meter. Everything seemed fine except figuring out where I wanted to be on all the settings. after a few minutes digging around in this rat-hole I call A brain I figured it out for normal cb operation. I let it warm up on power for a few minutes to make sure nothing was going to puke from just being hooked up. after about 8 minutes I grabbed the mike and turned the squelch down. at 3 am here its not unusual to hear nothing but dead air on every channel, so I found channel 16 which is always dead so I wouldn't bug any one.. hit the transmit button and..... it squealed briefly, pegged the needle, then started popping power surges about 1 per second. now the needle is stuck on 30db on the bright side the freq counter seems to work..... and it will power up. now to plan My next move... I think digging up a local cb shop may be a good idea. unfortunately I don't think there areany decent ones in this area outside of truck stops. [/QUOTE]

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