On 13/08/10 19:16, Gareth Bennett wrote:
Sounds like you have a pair of T355 T356 radios,
You may well want to open up the TX PA unit (Behind the alloy
shield) and change the electrolytics in there as well as this area
is a well known area of trouble and can cause no end of spuries.
Just ensure that you replace the caps with 105 deg C varients and you
should be fine and give you another 20 years of service :-)
Thanks Gareth,
Tait equipment is fairly new to me -
even though I passed their
Christchurch factory every day (some 40 years ago) on the way to work.
Most of my
'fixit' time was spent on Collins, Wilcox, and yes, Collier & Beale
transmitters, plus
Cossor & Marconi radars.
What I have here is two pairs of T355 T356 VHFs. A pair of similar
UHF equipment,
along with an AWA 70 cm duplexer and a very interesting 150 MHz duplexer
made
in Finland. Regrettably, someone has cannibalised the rack wiring with
sidecutters
so it is a rewire and make a new monitor panel.
Many thanks,
Gordon.
