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Snapperhead
| | Posted on Friday, May 10, 2002 - 4:50 pm: | 
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Hey 307,I Emailed Warlock for help but he said youd the man on these old style Grants with the 858pll. Well I've heard horror stories about buying stuff on Ebay. Now I'm a statistic. Anyways, The radio came to my QTH yesterday. I fired it up and it seemed to recieve well. So I hooked up my Dosy Libra meters to it and went to key it up. When I keyed it made your usual click to transmit and the TX light came on, but no carrier. Needle on radio or my dosy meters didn't move. OK, I thought it was my mic. So I disconnected mic jack and jumped the TX with pin and radio does the same thing, no deadkey carrier. I now it's hard to diagnose over forum. But maybe you can give me a lead on where to check. If audio driver is Franked, what are the Symtoms......... Thanks |
Snapperhead
| | Posted on Saturday, May 11, 2002 - 8:54 am: |
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Hey 307, I pulled cover off of Grant. I noticed two TO-220 Case Finals in Heatsinked in back of Radio the one on the left is NEC C1304 and the one Heatsinked on the right, it looks like it's a aftermarket final that someone soldered in before. it has different no. NTE 152. Shouldn't those finals be both C1306? Also, there is another TO-220 final mounted on the right hand side of radio, kinda by mic plug. C1419. What is the function of this one. Tho only other one, is The ten pin IN-LINE IC (Audio Amp/Modulator) wich I can't get a number off it. It's tucked away bolted to chassis. With the symtoms I described above, Which one of these do you recomend replacing? If That's even the problem.....
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307
| | Posted on Saturday, May 11, 2002 - 6:53 pm: |
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It does not sound good however , it most likely is the AM Power Regulator on the inside right side mounted to the case...
307 |
Snapperhead
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 11:33 pm: |
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Hey 307,
Was wondering if I could send you radio for repair. I heard your real knowledgeable of these Old 858 radio's. Really could use your help. If it's ok with you and how much do you charge. If not, refere me to someone who can help me out..........Thanks........
Phil(SnapperHead) |
307
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 7:09 am: |
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Sure , I will look at it for you. Email me direct at tech307@copperelectronics.com
307 |
Funtimebob
| | Posted on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 12:25 am: |
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Dont feel too Bad. I just became a statistic on a TRC-448 on e-bay. Gently used sold as is my A$$.
it came with the fuseholder busted and the wrong mounting bracket & no mic.
I replaced the fuseholder and bought a universal mounting bracket and hooked it up. the receive and transmit are intermittant and doesnt seem to have any modge and low power on transmit. sideband at least appears to be somewhat working and the channel display is only partially working.
I E-mailed coppers about repairs and their sales Box is full so i forwarded it to the VP?
Oh well hopefuly I did better on the TRC-490 with the old minutman mic that I just won 
should probably get it one way or another by next weekend........ |
Snapperhead
| | Posted on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 9:31 am: |
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Hey Funtimebob,
Ya know shortley after buying that Grant. I purchased a Realistic TRC-457. I bought it for a $100.00 with buy it now..... I sent money order out ASAP. Hell, it's been almost three weeks. Still haven't got radio yet. Seller won't respond.... I did have some good luck with Ebay though..Purchased a Galaxy Saturn. Finally got all my goodies from Copper last week....Got my base going.....Now If I could get some sood DX. Skip's been real slow. Alota QRMexico coming in.....73's..
Phil(SnapperHead) |
Buck
| | Posted on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 10:55 pm: |
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snapper.....did you email him direct or through ebay?? that also happened to me and i emailed the seller direct and he wouldnt respond i guess he thought it was spam or something..but when i contacted the seller through ebay he responded right away...Just a suggestion
Buck |
Funtimebob
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 3:29 am: |
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Snapperhead, Those old trc-457 were good sounding radios way back when hope you get it. If you don't get a response from him pull his contact info from e-bay. If the info proves to be invalid they will yank him quick. you can also file a complaint as a non performing seller. Also http://www.basestealer.com has good links to follow up on. |
Snapperhead
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 8:32 am: |
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Sound good. If it don't come today. I'm going to request his phone number and find out what's going on.....Thanks for Email info....73's |
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