[Johnson] Bob, 57 problems and Johnson Ranger School

[mike student]

Thanks :-).........
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Zwiebel" <wb6orz@pacbell.net>
To: <johnson@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 4:34 PM
Subject: [Johnson] Bob, 57 problems and Johnson Ranger School


> 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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