[MRCA] Angry 5 Revival

[MilComm Guy]

I picked up this receiver at the spring Nearfest meet in NH, I thought it
looked nifty and rolled the dice it might actually work.  I powered it up
with 24v and after a brief pause it came to life, I tuned around and was
listening to several stations, my joy was short lived, after 20 minutes of
bliss a fuse popped.

I asked a friend if he was willing to see what happened and the initial
failure was a buffer capacitor on the main winding had shorted to ground,
he said I was lucky it didn't take out the winding.  He ended up changing
out multiple if not all capacitors that tested bad, how this even worked at
all is amazing, the selenium components were also replaced.  After an
alignment it now outperforms the stated rx sensitivity and it is working
great.  The angry 5 now has a permanent home in the shack with the other
green monsters, a great big thanks to my friend for all his hard work
bringing this back to life.
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Naughty components.
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73
Mark
K1HF
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