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