[Johnson] Bob, 57 problems and Johnson Ranger School

[Leslie Zwiebel]

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	Les

john page wrote:
> 
>      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