[1000mp] 20m Died in middle of NAQP!!!

[Jerry Spring]

Tom:

Thanks for the personal telephone support on my VCO
problem!  This being my first time inside a modern rig
(with surface mount), I was quite nervous, to say the
least!  So naturally I broke something to get even
more edgy.  Fortunately, the black plastic sleeve that
helps to attach the white ribbon cable to the PC board
was reparable with crazy glue!  After visually
inspecting the solder joints on the bottom of the
card, everything seemed to look fine.  Nevertheless,
it took two goes at resoldering various connections to
finally fix the problem!  I'm not sure what I did, but
the rig now seems to be it's old self. 

Thanks to those who pointed me in the right direction
and to Tom, W1TO, who gave such accurate instructions
on fixing the problem!

Jerry
VE6CNU 

 
--- Tom Homewood <w1to at adelphia.net> wrote:

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> 
> http://www.va3cr.net/1000MP/Problems/RepairsVCO.htm
> 
> These are the exact symptoms of the VCO problem.
> 
> Thanks for the Qs in the NAQP.
> 
> 73, Tom, W1TO
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jerry Spring" <springjl at yahoo.com>
> To: <1000mp at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 12:47 AM
> Subject: [1000mp] 20m Died in middle of NAQP!!!
> 
> 
> >2 Icom 756 Pro Radios to be given away to QSL/QTH
> .NET supporters!  One on 
> >Dec 31 and one on Jan 31.
> > See http://mailman.qth.net for details.
> >
>
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> >
> > My MP developed the following symptoms during the
> NAQP
> > contest today:
> >
> > Main RX will not receive between 7.500 and 14.500
> MHz
> > but works fine outside this range.  The sub seems
> to
> > work fine in this range, while all I hear on the
> main
> > RX is phase noise.  When I tune across the upper
> or
> > lower boundaries of this range, I hear a loud
> relay
> > click and then the RX turns on/off, depending on
> which
> > direction I'm tuning.  The transmitter will not
> > transmit on 20m or 30m either.  I did a rig reset
> and
> > that didn't help.  The rig seems to work normally,
> > otherwise.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > Thanks!!!
> >
> >
> > Jerry
> > VE6CNU
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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