[Milsurplus] RAK AND RAL RAB landed at SMECC anyone got a good link list?

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Thu Jul 21 17:48:41 EDT 2016


On 21 Jul 2016 at 17:35, Richard wrote:

> About all that goes wrong with the RAK and RAL is the resistors age high.  Fortunately nearly all 
> are easily accessible.

Well, we are finding that the oil-filled capacitors are going bad now.

Also, there are mica capacitors between the RF stages and the detector. If you hear "static" 
with no antenna connected, the cause is that one or more of those capacitors is leaking.

Ken W7EKB


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