[Ron Ramirez]

I've had this 38-690 sitting around here, literally, for years. I had done nothing with it at all during that time.

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So, back in February, I decided that I should check it out and make sure it was ship-shape and good to go.

To be brief...it wasn't.

Oh, I could plug it in, turn it on and (barely) hear my home AM transmitter...but that was it.

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Notice the BNC jack in the back of the chassis, to the left of the antenna terminal board. Notice also that one of the screw terminals on the antenna terminal board is missing, and that two wires are connected to the other two screws. Keep this in mind as this thread progresses.

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Close inspection revealed the speaker cables were dried out and in poor shape. I also discovered that the same was true for the tuner-to-amp interconnect cables.

So here we go with a...ummm...an adventure.