[bgadow]

That's my kitchen radio, too! Actualy, the cabinet on mine is slightly different. Glad you posted the inside view as I've never had a need to pull the back off mine.

That sure sounds like a cap problem to me. I enjoy recapping these solid state sets as they aren't too bad to work on. I've noticed similiar noises on other transistor radios-they become prone to either motorboating or overloading when the volume is increased slightly, that sort of thing. Recapping fixed it. I have noticed that my RCA tends to pick up interference rather easily. It sits on the microwave and the current unit we have doesn't cause much trouble but our last oven would make it unlistenable. Then, recently, we noticed a slight staticy noise which I traced to the CFL bulb in our ceiling fixture. That was an easy fix: replaced it with a good old incandescent.