Yep, new batteries or using the ac adapter doesn't make a difference.

On Jan 23, 9:40 pm, "Henry Kolesnik"
wrote:
got new batteries in it?"jrt" wrote in ooglegroups.com...

I have replaced two capacitors on my icf-sw1 as per information found
in this group. At first everything seemed to be all right, but now the
radio will work fine the first couple of minutes, but the the audio
becomes distorted. I checked the audio on the earphone but it is also
bad. My question is, what can I do to fix this problem?