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Author Topic: Any Ham radio/CB enthusiasts here? Or even someone knowledge about electronics..  (Read 1863 times)

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midnightpulp

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in general? An friend of ours passed away who was huge into CB/Ham. I picked up various items from his estate including transceivers, mics, etc. One of the coolest units is a Swan 500cx transceiver with a 117xc power supply. Unfortunately, when I plugged everything in and flipped the switch, there was a pop, followed by smoke, a familiar site to any of us who worked on an arcade machine, I'm sure. I know nothing about these units so I'm wondering if anybody out there might have an idea what went wrong.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Oops. Sorry for posting in this wrong forum. I could've swore I was in Everything Else.

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If it had not been used for a long time capacitors dry out and pop.  If it was not connected to a proper antenna and ground depending on how the controls were left it could also damage the tranceiver.  Don't use it if you do not have a ham license as you can be fined by the FCC.

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Just for your info that unit puts out 100 times the output of a CB rig.
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Open it up and look for smoke trails / burnt components...

I used to be into CB back in the day...  I had an old base station, the tube variety.  On a good day, and with some skip, I could talk to people in Canada (I lived in VA at the time).  Picked up GB once.