Do you you have electronic test equipment?


"SparkySKO" wrote in message
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Hey hey,

So, I blew up the frontend on my radio. Opened it up, can't see any
visible damage. When you blow up the radio, any idea what normally goes
on it? The huge honking amp transistor looked fine, and I'll try to
replace that when I can find a boatanchor with a spair, but I'm just
wondering where to concentrate my effort on repairs..

I had previously been testing my radio with a 1.7 SWR on my new
antenna. My radio just dropped all the power, and stopped transmitting
for a while, and then a few minutes later, it started working again,
but I just put out unintelligible noise, although at full power
according to my meter (external).

And no, i wasn't unintelligible cuz i was drunk, I'm pretty sure i was
sober at the time

GHB wrote:
Do you you have electronic test equipment?

Not really. I have a friend who might have some equipment. Multimeter
is easy enough to come across. Oscilliscope, no.

Funny that I don't have personal access to test equipment, I work in
one of the most state of the art RF labs in the world with equipment
galore, but I couldn't sneak in anything to test on. Nor does anyone
know a darn about my plight.

The radio AFAIK did work fine for a while. So I don't think this is
entirely a mod. It doesn't look modified,

Funny, I couldn't TX yesterday until i toggled the PA switch (i mashed
a bunch of other buttons, but this one finally did it). Although the
radio wasn't in PA mode.

I was just asking on here so that someone could kinda point me in the
right direction to look at.

"SparkySKO" wrote in
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GHB wrote:
Do you you have electronic test equipment?

Not really. I have a friend who might have some equipment. Multimeter
is easy enough to come across. Oscilliscope, no.

Funny that I don't have personal access to test equipment, I work in
one of the most state of the art RF labs in the world with equipment
galore, but I couldn't sneak in anything to test on. Nor does anyone
know a darn about my plight.

The radio AFAIK did work fine for a while. So I don't think this is
entirely a mod. It doesn't look modified,

Funny, I couldn't TX yesterday until i toggled the PA switch (i mashed
a bunch of other buttons, but this one finally did it). Although the
radio wasn't in PA mode.

I was just asking on here so that someone could kinda point me in the
right direction to look at.



CB radios are disposable, just throw it away and buy another one, or try
stamp collecting.

SC