When I got this radio the cord was bad .. so I put a temporary cord on it to see where this radio stood... It power's on and almost wants to bring in stations but doesn't quite do it... When you get to where there's a station you get a squeal and a squelch and maybe a faint voice... As the volume goes from off to loud very quickly and doesn't really have a low so probably a capacitor issue... Powers on but does not function correctly ...actually found that when I played with the antenna the squelches began to sound more like voices...

  While putting in this temporary cord I noticed there's a light dangling in the middle.. so it's probably meant to light up... not sure if the bulb is good or not?