I don't have a 259 myself but some of my friends do. It is clearly a useful bit of kit.
But I have repaired a couple! I agree about the build standard, not that hot, and not made easy to repair either with most of the components inaccessible underneath the board. In both cases they had been damaged by the user applying the supply the wrong way round - there is no idiot diode to prevent this. It takes out one of the 5V regulators and also a LM324 quad op-amp. If you have one it is worth adding a series diode in the supply to save you the hassle. I would also make a plug for a noise bridge. I built the one by KI6WX which appeared in QST in August 1989 (available to download from the ARRL site). If you have a suitable portable rig to couple to it does most of what the fancy analysers can do at a fraction of the cost. 73 Dave G3YMC http://www.davesergeant.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
