More info on the 3300HP-ZX;
That wrinkled looking black cap at C166, that has one just like it that's brown and not wrinkled on the foil side, anyway the top one was completely burned up. I knew it looked funny and sure enough I touched it and it crumbled and there is burnt residue on the coils around it. I borrowed one out of my old General Lee to test in this radio, it's not cooking the cap but it didn't seem to make a difference. Didn't change the weird issue with lack of power and no modulation on RF high/ and only a little modulation on RF low. On my nearby monitoring radio, RF low out of this radio sounds pretty good even with only maybe 2w of swing, can barely hear myself when I switch to RF high.
The double diode/double resistor contraption that was at R240, that I replaced with the correct value based on this board parts layout, had a 2.2k and 43k resistor. Not sure what model/value diodes.
TR32 was originally missing, and I replaced it with one out of a Cobra 29 which is the same part number.
The antenna wire doesn't go through the slot to the foil side, it goes to the empty spot for R213. Is this normal?
That wrinkled looking black cap at C166, that has one just like it that's brown and not wrinkled on the foil side, anyway the top one was completely burned up. I knew it looked funny and sure enough I touched it and it crumbled and there is burnt residue on the coils around it. I borrowed one out of my old General Lee to test in this radio, it's not cooking the cap but it didn't seem to make a difference. Didn't change the weird issue with lack of power and no modulation on RF high/ and only a little modulation on RF low. On my nearby monitoring radio, RF low out of this radio sounds pretty good even with only maybe 2w of swing, can barely hear myself when I switch to RF high.
The double diode/double resistor contraption that was at R240, that I replaced with the correct value based on this board parts layout, had a 2.2k and 43k resistor. Not sure what model/value diodes.
TR32 was originally missing, and I replaced it with one out of a Cobra 29 which is the same part number.
The antenna wire doesn't go through the slot to the foil side, it goes to the empty spot for R213. Is this normal?
