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flintstone mop
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« on: January 13, 2010, 10:16:31 AM »

Hello All
Due to a minor problem of the transmission line laying on the tuner coil and arcing AND 75M going south I had to give up on my attempt to join a nice QSO with K1KBW and KC3UFU and there were others joining and leaving and going to listening mode.
After the "concert" was over from the music station.............didn't sound impressive....there were a lot of folks on board last night. The busy highway made it a challenge even using a modern SDR.

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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2010, 11:18:04 PM »

I hope you can fix that. Since I returned from my little vacation, I find my listening amp is not working on the R-390, so i have not been able to enjoy the AM stuff at all.
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« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2010, 03:52:20 PM »

With the deposit of the correct amount to my Swiss account,
that can be arranged......
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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2010, 05:26:30 PM »

I hope you can fix that. Since I returned from my little vacation, I find my listening amp is not working on the R-390, so i have not been able to enjoy the AM stuff at all.

Most of my radio malfunctions, 99% of which turn out to be intermittent, first develop between the time I turn the equipment off one day and the next time I turn it back on.

Everything can be working perfectly.  Then I shut down.  The next day when I try to fire up again, I have multiple malfunctions with problems that are totally unrelated to each other.
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2010, 05:38:26 PM »

Everything can be working perfectly.  Then I shut down.  The next day when I try to fire up again, I have multiple malfunctions with problems that are totally unrelated to each other.

Virgil Grommet does those things while you are not there.
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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2010, 05:43:29 PM »

Everything can be working perfectly.  Then I shut down.  The next day when I try to fire up again, I have multiple malfunctions with problems that are totally unrelated to each other.

Just think of the problems if you used wire wraps instead of solder - like those old computers of yesteryear.   Shocked


"Well it worked fine the last time it was on."   (Famous words of consumers - and critical info to give the repair tech)


I think connections, PC boards, connectors, etc.,  go intermittent from the temperature generated expansion and contraction of the metal around them.  (Especially rigs with big power, heat and all that schtuff.)

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« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2010, 08:52:44 PM »

Wire wrap is pretty good if done correctly. I remember years ago the F15 mission computer motherboard was wire wrapped. I think IBM made it. We are in a redesign of a system that had a wire wrap back plane. I have never seen a wire wrap connection fail if done correctly with a midified wrap.
The logic of today is just too fast for it.
Biggest failure mode I have seen in recent years is tantalum caps.
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