[MRCA] M&S Net and Able Archer

[KA1LHZ]

Murphy rears his head yet again

DE KA1LHZ


On 11/13/2017 04:52 PM, Ray Fantini wrote:
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> Managed to miss out on the M&S Net and Archer Able 83 this weekend,
> not for a lack of trying but after driving up to port Clinton and
> having issues using the mutt on state game lands with the park people
> then discovered that the GRC-106 that I tested last weekend decided to
> go belly up. Pulled the radio and reseated all the sub-assemblies but
> that did not do anything and yesterday after I got home discovered
> that the reference oscillator assembly died. Despite the fact that
> both test points show the outputs the radio refuses to work with that
> reference oscillator assembly. Pulled that oscillator from another
> that I had at home and that fixed it but that did not give me any
> satisfaction Saturday out in the field.  Worst thing is that we were
> attempting to do a QSO with a museum ship and having to result to
> running a little 20 watt radio just was not doing it and know that the
> big output of the 106 would have solved that problem. Well there is
> always next year.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH
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