JAL413
New Member
Hello All,
I did a full recap on my Eleven III. Also replaced the dial cord, changed to LEDs and replaced transistors on the power supply board and power amp board due to an intermittent pop in the left channel that I later found to be a bad solder joint on the power supply board. Cleaned all the switches with Deoxit. On FM in would occasionally not kick in to stereo but just giving the VCO pot a little budge fixed that. The variable capacitor pulley and shaft walked out of the bracket letting the anti-backlash gear fall off, so I had to get that back together. Thanks to many threads on here, the receiver now works and sounds great except for AM radio. I plan to send it out for an alignment, but I was wondering about the poor AM performance. Even a junky radio picks up a lot on the AM band here but this unit only picks up one station which is the next town over and even then I have to turn the volume way up to hear it. The signal meter doesn't move at all when tuning along the AM band. Any thoughts? I only have the factory antenna, but like I said, even a cheap radio picks up a lot more than this.
Thanks in advance
I did a full recap on my Eleven III. Also replaced the dial cord, changed to LEDs and replaced transistors on the power supply board and power amp board due to an intermittent pop in the left channel that I later found to be a bad solder joint on the power supply board. Cleaned all the switches with Deoxit. On FM in would occasionally not kick in to stereo but just giving the VCO pot a little budge fixed that. The variable capacitor pulley and shaft walked out of the bracket letting the anti-backlash gear fall off, so I had to get that back together. Thanks to many threads on here, the receiver now works and sounds great except for AM radio. I plan to send it out for an alignment, but I was wondering about the poor AM performance. Even a junky radio picks up a lot on the AM band here but this unit only picks up one station which is the next town over and even then I have to turn the volume way up to hear it. The signal meter doesn't move at all when tuning along the AM band. Any thoughts? I only have the factory antenna, but like I said, even a cheap radio picks up a lot more than this.
Thanks in advance