York JCB-861

This is a tired looking but working York JCB-861 from around 1981 using the popular Cybernet PTBM134 chassis, it is a basic set with a power output switch (4W or 400mW), a tone switch and volume/power and squelch controls as well as a meter and red channel display next to the channel change knob.

This radio came to me a couple of years ago with an open-circuit speaker, this has been replaced with a slimline non-standard part and the tags from the old, dead speaker repurposed to connect the replacement to the radio without modifying its wiring so an original speaker can be fitted at a later date, one of the decoupling capacitors on the rear near the PA section has been replaced and so has the L9 inductor which was broken, both parts were sourced from a non-working Harvard 420M,replacing L9 meant this needed resetting to 4 watts to prevent the PA being burnt out, my meter reads just shy of the 4W, 400mW is a little temperamental at the preset, mic and new power lead are included