You're a good troubleshooter and restorer, Buddy! In this day and age of throw-aways and board changers, a person who can troubleshoot down to the component level is getting rare. They are grossly under-appreciated considering the thousands of hours it takes to get really good at it.
It's a science and an art. You have the right attitude; always keeping calm and plugging away. With that combination there's nothing you can't eventually get working right.
Your video documentation will help a lot of hams in the future.
T
Thank you for those very kind words and vote of confidence.
Repairing electronics is very relaxing to me. I enjoy a good challenge. I find it like a good murder mystery or detective story. I hear so many folks say that repairing old radios is a dying art, I find it as being a lost art.
Since I started the video blog I have had many folks mail me saying how much it has inspired them to get into repair. Speaking of email I get several hundred a week now. Hard to keep up with them.
Thanks why I do this, is to help give others that push they need to get started. Just the comments I see is very rewarding. Thanks again.
Anyway I am off tomorrow and plan to look over the oscillator issue. The oscillator seems very strong as I can hear it in the near by receiver. I believe there is a resistor that may be causing the problem I did try the 122 and did not get any signal out. Have to dig into that deeper. Going to try and upload some video on the VII this week end.