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.