[Hallicrafters] SX-117 muting

[Jeff]

Looking for confirmation:

I'm hearing myself on SSB through the SX-117, even though the receiver 
is "muted".  It's faint, but loud enough to be annoying.

I see that there was a service bulletin (1964-4) that addresses a 
condition in transceive with the HT-44 (mine is stand alone with a CE 
100V), that provided for "further isolation."  In looking at the 
schematic, it would seem that the modification would increase the 
muting, but I just wanted to make sure before I started hacking around 
with the soldering iron.

Anybody have any opinion?  My 117's serial number starts with 117002...

And hoping to find an INTACT HT-44 to marry it up with.  The auction 
site has some interesting specimens at the time of this writing which 
confirm PT Barnum's assertions. Why someone would have ripped out the 
phasing transformers to put it on CB...



Thanks all --

Jeff
WB3JIH