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Receiving volume is very low, I have to turn the volume up all the way to hear anything (squelch is very low when I turned knob to readjust settings) when before I didn't even need to turn it up halfway to hear loud and clear. This just started and this is the first it has been on since my truck got out of the shop for repairs not related to anything that would affect the radio. The shop did however turn the power off to the cab using the switch just inside the driver side door on the floor when they were finished. I'm wondering if that screwed my radio up somehow?

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Was the radio wired direct or with a cigarette lighter plug? try the RF gain knob and the mic gain knob.If they are wide open does the radio rec.any better? if not you may have a problem with the main IC

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SOURCE: The power/volume knob doesn't do anything.

I have a uniden pc79 I have been working on with a similar problem. Its basically the same radio as the one you have.

Far as I can find so far it is a problem with the weather board, and how it is interrogated into the radio.

The way the do it now, the weather board is part of the radio now, so it will not function without it.

Some one I know told me it could be a problem with the VCO as well. If it is not aligned properly. I have not had a chance to try aligning it yet.

Pretty much there is something blown inside the radio. I wish I could tell you what. Never the less, the radio is going to need either a tech, or to be sent back to cobra.

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