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So you want to learn more about radio repair

nat,
There are several good books out there from Lou Franklin. Those are very helpful. A bit out dated but still good.
Radio repair can be easy with the right tools and the knowledge to use them. I plan when time allows to put a whole article here in this thread on basic trouble shooting skills. Not just the simple stuff but more complex stuff that will make repair easier.
Time is my only problem.
 
I hope you find the time because that would be very helpful. I have the screwdriver experts guide, do it yourself cb repairs and modifications book. He also has another book understanding and repairing cb's. I hope to buy it soon.
 
nat19 said:
Just wondering, what got you into repairing radios etc...
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Not sure if you are asking Rob or myself.

But here is my story.
At the age of 11 I was really into short wave. I had got an old receiver (Hallicrafters). From time to time it would start acking up so I would take it apart and fiddle around with it. I had an uncle that was into tv repair. So he helped with the parts.

Most kids my age were out playing ball and getting into whatever. Not me. I stay after school reading books and at the public library. I started getting magazines from clippings at the barbor shop. Before long my older cousins were asking me to hook up their 8 tracks in the cars.

I later picked up a Johnson 9 channel mobile radio from a guy in town. I made my antenna and used a car battery to power the rig. Radio shack came out with a cheap 1/4 wave ground plane. So I got one. Oh, There used to be a super market in town called Big Star. It was at a strip mall in town. We lived on a farm so we only went to the grocery store 1 to 2 times a month. We grew and raised most of what we needed. There was a Radio Shack there. Can not tell you the amount of time I spent in that place. Some times Mom would be at the mall for 3 to 4 hours. The whole time I was in Radio Shack.

Fast forward to 1980. I opened a TV/Radio shop in a small town. Ran it for years. Then later I closed it and a friend and I opened a cb shop. He past away 7 years ago so I closed the shop. Spent the free time playing with ham radio. 2 years ago I started working on ham equipment for the public. The a few months later got back into cb repair.

So thats my story.
 
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That's really cool. I started makeing small repairs to radios because I live in the second poorest county in WV. Therefore we have no radio shop within 80 or 100 miles. I started talking on them as a way of cummunication from my farm to my house which is about 15 miles. Since then I have talked to many local operators up to around 60 miles. It has become one of my favorite things to do.:tt1:
 
Yeah; necessity is the mother of invention. I don't have any repair shops around here either; so repairing radios myself became a necessity. I can't fix any of the more complex problems; or even know how to troubleshoot major problems. I have fixed a few and haven't destroyed anything yet. Got some $5 radios that didn't work and managed to fix them - just because it presented a challenge...
 
Its been 1 yr. I was hoping to see Radio Tech's wright-up .
Hopefully nothing , bad happened ?
I've ended up here as a result of links or searches a few times , now with this thread I finally reg.
 
Lil'Yeshua said:
Thanks. I was wondering if there is a way to use the Galaxy DX-959'4 freq counter as a probe ?:confused:
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Just because it is called a freq counter, it doesn't mean it is capable of making critical adjustments. That is where this comparison begins and ends. You wouldn't want to set your Rolex watch to a sun dial; would you? Those little freq counters are barely capable of being accurate with the five or six digits or the 1kHz/minimum resolution they have!

I use a Protek 9100 and a Hewlett/Packard 5316A when doing radio alignments. The Protek is accurate up to +/-10Hz and the HP is accurate up to +/-1Hz. But a decent freq counter needs to be accurate for +/-10Hz to do radio work - so long as it is calibrated.
 
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DIY kind of guy

Thanks! Just asking. I'm waiting for 8451 Electronics to get back with me to see if he'll do my alignment. He's sort of close to where I live. :thumbup1:
 
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