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Freebird
Intermediate Member Username: Freebird
Post Number: 214 Registered: 1-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 9:36 am: |
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I bought a used Galaxy saturn turbo and when its on SIDE BAND everyone sounds bad.It sounds like the speaker is blow out in it so i hooked up an external speaker and it still sounds like this.On AM and FM everyone sounds ok.Does anyone know what this may be?And how to fix it. |
Freebird
Intermediate Member Username: Freebird
Post Number: 222 Registered: 1-2003
| Posted on Monday, March 14, 2005 - 8:33 pm: |
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anyone? |
Kid_vicious
Intermediate Member Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 286 Registered: 9-2004
| Posted on Monday, March 14, 2005 - 9:56 pm: |
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hey freebird, just wanted you to know someone's reading your post. i think the reason you havent gotten more responses is that your description is a bit vague. have you heard one of these radios operate correctly in the past for reference? do you have another radio there that sounds good on SSB? just to make sure its not interference. are you able to make out people's voices? try giving us as much detail as possible, and i'll do my best to try and help. matt |
2600
Member Username: 2600
Post Number: 494 Registered: 7-2002
| Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 1:44 am: |
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Hi Freebird, Sorry to see nobody else had a suggestion. There is a fix for this, changing a capacitor in the SSB receive section. Pretty sure it's C89, a disc capacitor that gets changed to a smaller size, like 2 pf or so. Try turning your RF gain down and see if that clears up the SSB receiver audio. If it does, there's a chance that this trick will help. Of course there may be some other cause behind the problem you're having, but we saw a few of these 8 or 9 years ago new out of the box. 73
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Dmlock
New member Username: Dmlock
Post Number: 4 Registered: 4-2004
| Posted on Friday, November 11, 2005 - 7:18 pm: |
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SYMPTOM -- Distorted receive on SSB PROBLEM -- C43 has a 1pF capacitor installed which should be replaced with a 10pF, and C89 has a 10pF capacitor installed which should be replaced with a 5pF. SOLUTION -- The easiest and quickest cure is to simply switch the two capacitors. Even though the schematic shows C89 as a 5pF, the 1pF works just fine. Realign L15 and L16. |