Neil McKie wrote:
> The following is not meant to upset anyones view on the Mastr II
> PLL exciter ... but ...
>
> A friend brought his hi-band Mastr II Station to me for tune up
> some months ago. It had a PLL exciter on board. We tuned, reset
> the VCO voltage according to the manual and finished the
> transmitter which is what he wanted.
>
> We tuned up the receiver, got the repeater operating, set
> frequencies, levels and he departed.
>
> Came back a coupe of weeks later complaining the PLL exciter was
> unstable - sometimes didn't have any output. So, we finally yanked
> the PLL exciter out, removed the ICOM and tossed the exciter board
> into a corner.
>
> Then I went into the back room and grabbed a brown handle Mastr II
> mobile, pulled the exciter board out, swapped the crystal from the
> PLL ICOM, stuck it into a 5C ICOM and installed the exciter into the
> equipment. Tuned it up and he left. That took care of that.
>
> Never did figure out what the problem was with the PLL exciter
> board.
>
What frequency did you tune the exciter to?
Kevin
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