"mikeFNB" wrote in message
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what does it do to a set of phones or ext speaker?
my thought lie with a naff speaker.
even though the beep is ok.
have you a sig gen? or maybe stick a radio from the eaphone socket to two
bear wire and put them across the scanners speaker after disconnecting the
scanners own feed, does it work ok then?
you need to find out if it is the scanner at fault or the speaker as the
dirst step.
if an external audio source works, then time to scope the i/p & o/pof the
audio chip.
should be easy to do.

mike

Thanks Mike,


I tried an amplified source via the earphone. The
Amplifier was a Klipsch 2.1 (200 watts) the audio was barely intelligible.
the background hiss was overbearing
and a beep tone at the same amplified volume level was
well beyond tolerability. I will try your other suggestions
as I do have a tone generator that I could get out of mothballs.

regards,

Allen

Component failure may have cause the IF freq. to shift off of the correct
freq.

HJ

"Honest John" wrote in message
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Component failure may have cause the IF freq. to shift off of the correct
freq.

HJ


Thanks Honest John,


Well, the scanner is still displaying, responding to calls, and giving low
audible output. But if your theory is correct, I'm screwed:-(...I won't
give up hope...I am going to try the pot and hope like heck that is all it
is.
I would fare better off buying a new one if I had the problem you described.
Thanks for the input and let's hope for non-failure of component/s:-)

regards,


Allen

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:28:26 GMT, "Allen Crawford"
wrote:

I would fare better off buying a new one

Try hanging a 47k resistor between the high end and the center pin of
the pot and keep the pot about at the center. It's not a fix, but if
it works a little, you know the pot is shot (open on the high end).
You wouldn't be happy spending $15 for a pot to discover that it's not
the pot that's the problem.