[Johnson] Johnson Viking Invader

[Brian Carling]

This great to hear David and I am glad you made the effort.
I think that there are VERY VERY few Invaders still in use on the 
bands. Yours MIGHT be the only one!

Congratulations!

On 2 Jan 2006 at 9:30, David C. Hallam wrote:

> My Johnson Invader 200 will be going on the air today after about 6 months
> of intermittent bench work.
> 
> I bought it on eBay as an estate find back in the summer.  When it arrived
> it appeared to be in acceptable condition.  That observation was short
> lived.  After replacing the electrolytic capacitors, running some resistance
> checks for shorts in the power circuits, and replacing the line cord, I
> fired it up.  No output on any band.  After a lot of bench work that proved
> to be very frustrating and with invaluable consultation provided by N7NB, I
> reached the end of my knowledge with the rig still not working.  N7NB then
> took over and located the primary source of the problem, which turned out to
> be a bad driver tuning coil and got it working and aligned.
> 
> I have no idea what could have happened to this rig to have caused it to
> have so many problems in what appeared to be an acceptable piece of
> equipment.
> 
> Cosmetic work will come later.  For now I will be using it on the bands.
> 
> David
> KC2JD
> 
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