Hi Folks
I need help....please.
I recently purchased a beautiful '00 Ultra Classic.
At Americade the other day, I bought headsets, and my buddy bought a set too.
On the way home today, after yacking back and forth for over an hour on the CB, he asked repeatedly why I wasn't talking to him any more.......I WAS!
For some unknown reason, my CB just quite transmitting........I think.
I can hear HIM clear as a bell, but he hears NOTHING form me. At our next stop, we walked to eachothers bikes and plugged in, and got the same deal.....he wasn't getting to me , but I was getting to him, so it's obviously not the headsets.
Worked fine one minute, not the next.
Any ideas?
THANKS!
Frank

 

Being stupid on this, is there any kind of switch you have to use when you go to a helmet headset?

John TN

 

No, I don't believe so.
Like I said, the unit worked fine for hours before suddenly refusing to transmit.
Any other ideas?
Thanks!
Frank

 

Have you checked for a blown fuse?

 

No, I hadn't considered a blown fuse because I was still receiving. Wouldn't the fuse kill the whole operation of the CB?
Thanks for responding
Frank

 

I don't know, sometimes there's a main wire fuse and an onboard fuse in the radio as well, just a guess and you might have something like a broken wire somewhere, or a connector pin bent or not making connections. I don't know about the CB's at all, I'm just guessing. If you have a shop manual, check it for trouble shooting info on the CB.

I will do a little asking around for you. I know we have a CB guy here somewhere don't we, where is he?


Good Luck,
John TN

 

don't know anything at all about the headset stuff, but have fooled with cb's for years as a trucker. ya probly got a broke wire in your mike. quite common, snake.

 

I've gotta go with snake on that one... I'm an amauter radio operator and it sounds like you 've got a short in the mic cable somewhere. If the mic is incorporated in the headset, check there first. Headsets can have stress points where the cable meets the mic. Also check where the cable connects to the radio. This is where I have found wire breaks at the connector. Hope this helps.

W4MLE
Micah Eubanks
NC

 

If it's just a mike wire, then, when you key the mike (push the push to talk -PTT - button), you should send a dead carrier or signal - but, no audio. If there's no carrier, then your CB radio has a definite transmit problem. Did you tune your antenna after installing the radio. Have a tech look at what's called the SWR of the antenna. If it was unusually high and you continued to use the transmitter, you may have cooked what is called the final amplifier (applefryer??) in the radio. Let us know what you find. I betcha it's the mis-tuned antenna and finals.

Regards,
Ted, K3TNH (ham since '62)