[ICOM] Water damage to PW-1, now FIXED!!

Larry Gauthier (K8UT) K8UT at arrl.net
Mon Apr 23 16:58:37 EDT 2007


Thanks to all for your suggestions. I am happy to report that the PW-1 is 
back on the air and working fine.

The diagnosis? Hoping to discover something amiss, I removed the cover again 
and found that the flat ribbon cable connecting the PA1 board to the 
Splitter unit had become unplugged. In fact a piece of packing tape that 
folded the ribbon cable over and shortened it had peeled away from the 
ribbon cable and may have stuck to the outer cabinet. When I hurriedly 
removed the cabinet trying to minimize the effect of the water, I must have 
popped the cable from its connector.

I consider myself to be a very lucky guy!

OK - so let's get ready for next weekend's SP DX RTTY contest. And what 
frequency is the BS7H DXpedition on? ;-)

-larry
K8UT 



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