That was several months ago. I don'd remember what frequency we
did tune it to ... although I'd want to believe it was the
operating channel frequency.
After changing the exciter away from the PLL to the crystal/ICOM
version, it worked.
Neil
Kevin Custer wrote:
>
> 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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