[Johnson] Johnson Ranger School

Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:39:58 -0500

Congrats John, sounds like you did a great job.

Did you take any pictures along the way? One of the great things about the
internet for boatanchor lovers are all the sites where people have
documented their projects.

73,

Mark W1EOF

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> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 3:05 PM
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> Subject: [Johnson] Johnson Ranger School
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>
>      Well boys and girls. Its been an interesting week and a half. I
> attended an imprompto Ranger school in my own basement and hosted
> by myself.
>      It all started when i contacted someone on the net about an
> ad they ran
> for a Ranger for sale. It didnt look to good but having never had one and
> liking a challange, I went for it. It arrived and was in very
> good physical
> shape. Does need a paint job.
>      Electrical was quite another story. It, of course, didnt
> work. I spent,
> as mentioned earlier, a week and a half of 10 hour days and now it works
> perfectly. Yes I am retired and have, obviously, way to much time on my
> hands. Should have known better but it was a challange and look what I
> learned. Two weeks ago I couldnt even spell "Rnager" and now I know all I
> think I want to about them.
>      All kidding aside, it was fun and really did learn alot
> about it. Cant
> believe what people have done to this transmitter over its lifetime.
>      It had: missing parts
>              wrong value parts
>              bad parts
>              misswired parts
>              wires going places they had no business going
>              shorted wires
>              shorted switch contacts (by nearby wiring)
>              and just plain crappy soldering
>      So far I have documented 57 different problems. Its as if
> someone just
> got in there and said "oh boy, wonder if it will work better if I
> hook this
> here thang to that there watchamacallit. OOPS
>      On of the last thigs I found was the feed back loop in the
> mod section
> was hooked up backwords. Horrible audio. It really looked like
> this was an
> original hookup as its soldering looked undisturbed compared to
> what some of
> the other stuff looked like. May the guy who built it couldnt get
> it work on
> phone and just ran cw???????
>      Well, it works now and looking forward to getting it on the
> air with my
> NC173.
>      Just wanted to share my experince with all on the list. Guess i was
> just a little proud that I made it live again too.  John K4KWM
>
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