president washington

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I am trying to get my Washington radio to work and am having some issues. This radio has the 5 pin connector for the mic. I am using a D-104 lollipop also with a 5 pin connector. something is not right. I key up the mic and the TX is very weak. receives great! I am running a procomm antenna at bout 40 feet to the base of the antenna. SWR's are excellent! I also have a Palomar 90a connected. with the amp turned on all my needles bounce all over the place. I have taken the radio set up down and installed a different radio. I attached a COBRA 29PLX in its place. again SWR's are still great. just can not get a reply to see if it is getting out. I have ran the Washington in Colorado for years and could talk DX all day long. I move to Oklahoma and can get any farther than a mile at best. what am I doing wrong? I am wanting to do a full upgrade and start doing ham radio stuff but if I can not get a CB to work I am not sure I want to start thinking about ham!!!!!! I am sure there is a simple fix I just need to find it. If I have not explained something well enough please let me know.

 

[Orbieswar]

So the other radio transmits ok ?
You may have the microphone wired wrong for tx. or have a broken wire.
Try using a dummy load and a watt meter to see what the radio is doing...
Or use an external power supply to run the radio... maybe the internal power supply has a faulty regulator.

 

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I do know the Washington gets out about a mile. The cobra I have not tried yet with two radios. It seems that when I leave the house every one else wants to go as well. I did some looking at the mic and yup there is my problem I have wires going this way and that, these two soldered together and nit to a post, yeah I think that's the prob.

With out the palomar turned on I have great SWR settings. I turn the amp on and things start going hay wire. I loose the SWR'S the watt indicator starts jumping around. yeah not a good thing. I think its done. I am putting out the normal 4 watts on both radios.