[MRCA] Sometmes You Just Get Lucky!

[Christopher Bowne]

To all who suffered through the fits and starts of my randomly cycling ART-13 dyno on the MILRAD CW net last night - all is well!

Did a little troubleshooting today when dyno would not even come up in VOICE/CALIBRATE.  I gave the cabinet a thump and it came on and then went off again.

I localized my thumping to the area of the top cover near the dyno cover interlock switch and hit pay dirt.  Just holding the cover down with a little thumb pressure cured all the ills.  Fixed permanently by slightly bending the switch bracket to raise the interlock switch a bit upwards.  All the herky jerky dyno dancing is gone both on voice and CW.  Was probably going out slowly for a while.

Last night's incident taught me to keep the ARC5 in hot standby.  If I do, I can switch over just by swapping the antenna lead and the key lead!

73 and keep em flying,

Chris, AJ1G