Hi Bob, well I agree, I could spend hours trying to repair this one and never find the problem. It could be bad solder joints, ot a bad coil all together. Let me take a look before I have you send me that one. I have another exciter, can't recall the name right off hand, nue something like that. Going to tune that one up tomorrow and see how it does. I'm also looking at a Mastr II system, so that may help things quite a bit. SO far I have not heard anything show up on the Aircraft bands, so keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks for the input.
Mathew
Bob Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 7/9/2005 07:25 PM, you wrote:
>First I would like to thank Dave from Muncie, IN and his father for
>coming out and assisting with the beast of a nuisance. It seems there
>is some very critical coils inside the exciter, that has very little
>tolerance. A slight movement and the thing goes whacko. All that can
>be done now is to watch the output of the exciter on the SA and watch
>for any spurs. When he started, and I have to admit, I made some
>adjustments on the exciter over the past few days, but there was spurs
>that did more than jangle, they sang all over.
A good exciter would not be so sensitive to tuning. I'd suggest you start
looking for a G.E. Mastr II, Exec II or MVP mobile to replace the Maggiore
as your exciter (I picked up an MVP at Dayton but it's already spoken for
by a local group in O.C.). You almost can't make them go dirty even if you
try!
Another possibility: I may still have a Yaesu FTC-24xx exciter board that
does about 13 watts out. It was what I used with the receiver you now
have. It has no harmonic filter but you don't need one so long as you
always drive the PA with it (if the PA is bypassed it's harmonic filter
will also be bypassed, so you'd need a LPF or pass cavity). It's in a
cheap box that you'd probably want to repackage, but it's light so wouldn't
be too much to ship, which is all it would cost you.
Bob NO6B
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