Well.....it is solid state

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Hey guys
Treading lightly here
I'll be glad to take this somewhere else  you have been far beyond patient

Anyhow I got this realistic weatheradio 12-181A that probably hasn't been powered up in at least ten years

Anyhow I put a battery in it (9v) and it works  but I could tune it (it goes from 162.4-162.55 Mhz) and adjust the volume to get some guy talking about seas and barometric pressure etc but as soon as I set it down it was like opening a door to a raging typhoon 🌀 white noise sound 

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I could repeat that a times then after that nothing but solid white noise.

I guess I need to open it up and see if there's anything blaringly obvious 

Oh yeah I need to find a schematic too

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Check for corrosion on battery contacts, then start with cleaning the pots.

[joecool85]

Check for corrosion on battery contacts, then start with cleaning the pots.

I'm voting it's an issue with dirty pots.

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Thanks guys I have another realistic radio from that era (am fm) and it works good but you have to act like a member of a bomb diffuser unit tweaking the volume knob very similar barrage of white noise