[MRCA] Angry 5 Revival (change of subject, sort of)

[scottjohnson1 at cox.net]

Not to pick nits but “angry” applied to AN/GRY- accessories, “Jerk” applied to AN/GRC-, and “prick” applied to AN/PRC-.

Of course this was the Army, and I was AF, so I am prepared to take any and all heat for these statements.

-pedantic Scott W7SVJ

 

 

From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of MilComm Guy
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2024 9:38 AM
To: MRCA at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [MRCA] Angry 5 Revival

 

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.



Naughty components.



 

73

Mark

K1HF

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