Hi Steve et al, Well, not to make light of your situation there or anything, but I just came up from the shack & the T-4X PTO continues to sound just as smooth as silk. In fact I'm thinking of putting the top cover back onto it & using it again on the air...
Maybe if I "taunt" it enough like this, daring the PTO to "...get jiggly", it'll behave itself! Hi Hi. Yes, I know, that's stupid---but I'd swear sometimes that these things have minds all their own. : >) ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ************************************************************************************************************************ On 2011-08-21, at 5:16 PM, Eddy Swynar wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Well, I'm almost hesitant to say this, but ever since I re-soldered that > connection of the 33-pfd. temperature compensating tubular capacitor in the > PTO of my T-4X transmitter, I have not---FINGERS CROSSED!---experienced > anymore warbling of my signal... > > ...In fact, I just checked it again a couple of hours ago. Still sounds A-OK. > > Now, that is NOT to say that the situation is 100% cured---I know better than > to publicly proclaim anything like that, having been "burned" so many times > in the past! Hi Hi. > > Best get that ailing PTO into a mailing container & ship it POSTE HASTE to > Garey first-thing Monday morning, for his evaluation of the doggone thing > (and to think that I once thought that only my old Heathkit SB-102 was the > proverbial "...rig from hell"!). : >) > > ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ > > > ******************************************************************************************************************** > > > > On 2011-08-21, at 4:57 PM, Steve Wedge wrote: > >> Turned the R-4A on, with the replacement PTO from the T-4XB, and I am back >> to square one. :-( >> >> The frequency is jumping all over, occasionally chirps, then un-chirps. >> >> Any suggestions aside from selling it cheap? >> >> Steve Wedge, W1ES/4 >> >> "I can't complain, but sometimes I still do." >> - Joe Walsh >> >> If the above message appears, it came from Steve's Son of Laptop! >> _______________________________________________ >> Drakelist mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist >
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