Sounds like you may have dirty contacts. Another alternative is to put the crystal in one of the accessory sockets and try on the band it's supposed to work on. If it works, then the socket needs to be cleaned.
Steve Wedge, W1ES/4 Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. All my computers have my signature with various pearls of wisdom appended thereto. From: Damien Mannix Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Drakelist] Exploding cap? Further progress?! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Steve and Chris for your helpful advice regarding a possible bad crystal. I think you are right but somehow, despite being most careful, I seem to have made matters worse! Are 45 year old crystals particularly delicate? Should I renew them all? Tried the 15m crystal in the 10m and 40m sockets. Nothing doing. Tried the 10m and 40m crystals in the 15m socket. Nothing doing either!! Two problems by the look of it as far as 15m is concerned. The real shock came when I put the 10m and 40m crystals back in their correct places. 40m is fine but 10m is now dead. Of course I have taken it out and re-inserted it but to no avail. Maybe I wrecked it! Chris had trouble with a dirty crystal socket. Obviously I can clean the crystal pins, though they appear clean enough, but how on earth do I clean a crystal socket? Isn't Ham Radio fun! 73 Damien G3XER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
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