[Boatanchors] HRO-50 Mystery Solved

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: "Joe Connor" <joeconnor53 at yahoo.com>
To: "boatanchors mailman.qth.net" 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:25 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] HRO-50 Mystery Solved


As you know, I've been grappling with a low audio condition 
in this receiver. Many of you have been kind enough to offer 
advice and guidance and I truly appreciate it.

Today, the mystery was solved (Thank you, Al Klase). The 
problem was in the Select-O-Jet socket. The plug was there 
and the jumper was in it, so everything looked good. 
However, the jumper wasn't working. The wire must have been 
broken internally or in the pin of the plug. I installed a 
new jumper and now I have all the volume I could want. I 
played it for a few minutes on 80m and 49m and was very 
impressed with its performance.

I'm glad this is resolved. I bought this radio at an estate 
sale for a decent price, probably because it had been stored 
in a damp, flood-prone basement and looked like hell. Put it 
this way, there was another radio guy there who bought all 
the other radios at the sale but passed on this one because 
it was so rough. There's something especially gratifying 
when an old bomb like this starts working as it was supposed 
to work. I think it's going to clean up nicely.

Joe Connor
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      Congratulations on finding this.  Its so obvious once 
pointed out that its no wonder everyone missed it but Al 
(who is also an AR-88 expert).


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com