[Boatanchors] Boatanchor Advice Needed

[Dave Brown]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Klase" <al at ar88.net>
To: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Boatanchor Advice Needed


> Joe,
>
> Todd, KA1KAQ, speaks the truth, especially this part:  "Nice 
> construction, but not meant to be
> serviced by the weak of heart."  For instance the complex 40 and 
> 37.5MHz  LC filters in the Wadley section often need attention, and 
> this is tough to do without sophisticated test equipment.  They've 
> often been misaligned by unqualified repairmen.

Amen to that- I have an FH5 here at present that has had someone 
totally screw up the 40 MHz filter-still trying to sort it. For some 
reason these filters seem to attract incompetence like flies to a jam 
jar.

Todd's comments in a previous post are all true, but a working RA17 
really is great to use.

DaveB, ZL3FJ

(the FH5 is a dual channel version of the RA17 -it was used for 
maritime HF DF and also in a slightly different form as a dual 
diversity rx.)