I'm new to repairs, but I'm a ham, so I have some elecrtonics background. I picked up an Elgin R-1100 recently, and I'm working to complete repairs. I tested the audio section by inserting an audio signal between ground and the volume pot, and it works nicely (well, you know, it's scratchy, but there's nothing that some contact cleaner won't fix).
The tuning capacitor moves with the tuning knob through what looks as though it might be the full range, but the dial does not change, and I'm not tuning in any stations.
My next thinking involves either going down the path of inserting an rf source in the rf section or just going through the rf section with a multi-meter. I don't have an rf generator, exactly, and I don't have a schematic for the radio.
What's the next step I should take? Go through rf section with the VOM and look for obvious opens/shorts, or is there a trick I'm missing?