Browning Golden Eagle Vintage tube type 23 Channel CB transmitter 23s9 repair broken plate cap

Transmitter had no output. During a initial inspection I noticed that the plate tuning capacitor was damaged. Plates contacting each other. Which would short the RF signal to ground. Lucky, I had another, same mount, same value. I was able to replace the old one with some minor modifications to fit. I also found that the On the air lamp had burnt out, which is used as a RF output fuse! Now the transmitter works. Have some wrap up to do but looking promising!

[@electrolytics]

Ahh Ha! This is a different box than the other Browning. I was confused for a minute there.
I was watching how easily you fixed this and was wondering about the arcing that was going on......
But that was The Golden Eagle R2700.
Thanks D-Lab.

[@thesquirrelchroniclesakare7808]

Takes a good eye to spot that . A job well done my friend 👍🏻

[@Tom-W7TMD]

Easy peasy fix! Ohh I spotted that Johnson courier in the back ground! Looks like a nice one! I hope you share a vid on that some time!

[@OIE82]

Cool looking CB. Thanks Terry.

[@brentnearhood8874]

Thanks! Terry

[@minibikemadman]

I have a golden eagle mk2 and mk3..They are great plate modulated talkers. My mk2's have the mechanical collins filter in the RX's, witch they stopped putting in at the end of the mk2's into the mk3 generation.. ive gotta find some hot glass now.

[@PlanetaryThoughts9861]

Did the broken tuning cap burn out the on air lamp? I love the way light bulbs were used for purposes other than illumination! Those ones hidden under the chassis always amuse me.

[@mackfisher4487]

Nice bit of nostalgia, Terry how old is that rig, how can we convert CB back to amateur band.

[@billyrey9679]

Don't peanut butter in that mike!

[@douro20]

Going to convert it to 10m?

[@d-labelectronics]

Nope, customer unit

[@dancraver3815]

I Dan craver support d lab

[@AdamosDad]

73's🎙KD9OAM

[@SteveHacker]

Oh, knock it off with the whistling… People don’t whistle into their transceivers. They SPEAK!

[@mackfisher4487]

Old military radio technicians were taught to whistle to check modulation, my Vietnam-era equipment actually used 1600 cycles for signaling and we wood always whistle rather than using the built in oscillator. In my two-way radio shop we would whistle to check deviation, so consider using your built-in audio oscillator for testing. However it's hard to whistle with my tongue in my cheek.

[@PlanetaryThoughts9861]

@@mackfisher4487 Yep! We were still using the "boat anchors" at Ft. Polk in 1977. Most of what I did was repair or make cables though. I was the new guy PFC.