[Johnson] Bob, 57 problems and Johnson Ranger School

[Cal Eustaquio]

HOOOAH!
RANGERS! LEAD THE WAY!!!
Cal, N6KYR
501 Parachute Infantry Regiment (Airborne)

---- Original Message ----
From: wb6orz@pacbell.net
To: johnson@mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Johnson] Bob, 57 problems and Johnson Ranger School
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:34:42 -0800

>	I thought you might enjoy reading this guy's eMail.
>	(((((73)))))
>	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
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