Cobra 142 GTL repair shops?

Greetings from Oregon - the shower me state,
I’m Gus and I have an old 142 rig that’s been serving faithfully until a couple of years back. While the unit receives 5x5, the transmitting modulation is near 0% the SWR seems okay and it’s mated to an A-99 Antron antenna with RG8 cable, grounded with copper wire to a ground stake 6 ft. In the ground.
The trouble started about a year after receiving this rig back from 1 Stop CB shop for the installation of the potentiometer to reduce output wattage to my amp. I only recently learned of their poor reputation recently via a tattletale web site.
Please let me know if you knowof a shop can affect these type of repairs on such an old rig and any details you may have.
Thanks and a lift of the lynch lid.
Leo ‘Gus’ Gustafsson

 

For anyone that may be watching this thread just got a verbal reccomendation from William for a Magnum tech shop in Ontario CA that's much closer to PacNW folks LL #909-390-5056.

 

Right on, good to know!

 

Thanks guys, I was a bit uneasy sending Väinämöinen off to another shop, so it's very good to hear accolades of these guys, thanks again!



I'm really dubious to find out if this potentiometer isn't the cause of it all, will post when I find out anything!

 

:smt026The radio checked out fine! Turns out there was a gremlin what shoved some gook into the microphone plug