Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Mystery Micor problem

2010-08-13 Thread La Rue Communications
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Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Mystery Micor problem

2010-08-09 Thread Glenn Little WB4UIV
If you have another channel element that has a crystal, I would use it to determine if the problem is in the radio or the element. I suspect that the bad capacitor is in the element. What is the part number of the channel element? 73 Glenn WB4UIV At 10:03 PM 8/9/2010, you wrote: Glenn, Is it

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Mystery Micor problem

2010-08-08 Thread Rich Osman
On 08/08/2010 08:09 PM, n3ssl wrote: Glenn, OZ and group Its a step jump 5 khz up and get - 200 hz of crystal movment. What silver mica Cap is it? I have not looked inside a channel element in years usally send them out and trust the mfg. I also gave the crystal movement a thought but

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Mystery Micor problem

2010-08-08 Thread Glenn Little WB4UIV
We had this problem in Johnson radios. What it turned out to be was a plate of a silver mica capacitor coming disconnected internally in the capacitor. This caused the capacitor to shift to a lower capacitance by the amount that the plate contributed to the capacitor. The lower capacitance