Maybe the lesson here is: "If you're using the ngen, stock a few spares of the MMIC" ?? Mark On 2/28/07, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at earthlink.net> wrote: > ... I did the same thing only last week (for the 4th or 5th > time). Fortunately, I have replacements on hand so I was able to recover in > a few minutes after the air cleared from the "AHHH S**T". >