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Old 19th Oct 2019, 10:26 pm   #22
SiriusHardware
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Default Re: Midland 77-805 Portapak transmit issue

If the radio had had a metal backplane behind the plastic front panel (as most did) then I would have said better to put the capacitor on the inside of the radio across the original capacitor.

However it looks as though the front panel on this radio is entirely plastic, maybe you can confirm that - if so there will be little difference between inserting it into the holes in the microphone socket at the front (for test purposes) and soldering it across the existing capacitor on the back of the socket.

I didn't really expect to you order capacitors, thought you might have a duff chassis lying around which you could harvest some from. They are handy things to have anyway if you play with radio circuits on a regular basis.
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