[Johnson] Wanna buy a Valiant, cheap?

[John Lawson]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Kim Herron wrote:

> Hi John,


[snippage]



> in them that are present from improper assembly.  I recently bought
> a Ranger that had NEVER transmitted at all because of an error in the 
> assembly of the function switch.  The thing was basically brand new.
> Whoever assembled it, grounded the wrong wire and so several stages didn't 
> work.


   I bought a Dentron Super Tuner last year, from a private source who I've 
been dealing with for over 10 years.  I used it with a short single-ended 
temporary antenna and low-power Kenwood TS-430S.  It was never "right" - 
but it got out and I chalked it up to not knowing some detail of it's 
operation.  It just exhibited 'anomalous' behavior.

   Last week I took it to a friend's QTH to help set up a new antenna... 
he has a Johnson 500, and this time the tuner's behavior proved rather 
spectacularly anomalous....  so I took the case off it, and found that the 
function switch deck somehow wrong - it's upside down, but it is also "one 
detent out of phase" - the detent/stops are on the front panel, and a long 
fibre shaft runs back to the switch - the rotor of the switch is one 
position off from where it needs to be - the shaft has milled flats, and 
it's not twisted - the switch is wrong.  It has been this way from the 
factory and can never have worked properly.


    So now I've had a night's sleep and some coffee, it's time to see what 
the Valiant is complaining about...  in all these cases, the Rule is: 
"whatever you did last, undo that and start from there..."

  Cheers

John  KB6SCO