I have two of these Realistic 12-1290 AM radios, one of which I used to carry around in my pocket back in Jr High School. Both of them have distorted sound which I would like to repair. I believe with my own unit (that I bought new in the early '70's) that it has become worse with time (so I assume that happened to the other, also). Said distortion is linear and unaffected by volume level. You can hardly understand spoken words, it's so bad.
Anyone with experience with this? Does it sound like a capacitor or a transistor has "dried up" with age? There IS a schematic inside the back cover that I might be able to enlarge with Photoshop. Yeah, I know it's not worth a dollar three eighty- it's the sentimental value that counts.
05-18-2008, 07:19 PM
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