The Yaesu had a shorted variable neutralizing cap. had some brown glop shorting some of the plates - couldn't see it unless you took it out which I did - must have been conductive enough to screw with everything for a long time before it zapped the cap enough to short the b + and no dip.
Replaced with the one out of the spare rig and viola 150 watts.
I'm gonna run the old one through the dishwasher and see if it cleans itself out.
Now I have some other chores to do which involve putting all of the 44 screws back into the KW matchbox case. I'm putting a 0-5amp expanded scale hot wire rf ammeter into the swr meter hole in the front. The SWR meter never worked under QRO conditions because it didnt have the shielding cover. So I put it back into the standalone SWR meter unit where it works fine no matter the power level.
then see if I can get wifey to help me fish my feedline back through the outside wall so I can connect to assembled matchbox and get back on with amp n make noise.
then finish wiring up the audio rack for ray.
sheesh.
