[MRCG] Status

[Craig VonIlten]

Bryce,
The Swedish guy is Lars.  I will dig up his call sign for you this week.  Not sure about Lynn.  You could probably track them down in the open on the reflector email: mrcg at mailman.qth.net

Cheers!

Craig

> On Jun 14, 2015, at 9:55 PM, KK6PTR <kk6ptr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Craig,
> 
> Thanks for the pictures. As it turns out this was a really good idea, and I really appreciate your willingness to accept the mission. I would have been absolutely lost, spent some more money in the blind, and eventually had to give up, because these problems all exceed operator level maintenance and my skills.
> 
> Thanks for the update and I'm excited to try out the radio once it works, but if it helps, I'm not in a hurry and don't mind if it takes some time.
> 
> In the mean time, I had a couple questions about the MRCG guys, do you have contact info for Lynn Smith? He is the guy from the Bay Area who collects military vehicles and isn't a Ham. Also there was another guy, I don't know his name, but he had the table behind his car straight across from you at the swap meet when we met you and he had those PRC-10 manpack radios that I was looking at right before I got distracted by your GRC-9. His name sounded Swedish or something...
> 
> Thanks again for the taking on this effort for us. At least the light's on!
> 73, Bryce
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Jun 14, 2015, at 8:52 PM, Craig VonIlten <craigvonilten at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Bryce,
>> I think there are some capacitor issues.  Starting with the receiver, it produces some hiss and pop when switching band and adjusting RF and AF knobs, but it isn't passing RF.
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>> Transmit lights up the antenna tune indicator, but isn't loading the antenna...I didn't have a scanner...but went up and down the dial on another radio.
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>> So we have some functionality, but I'll have to go down the rabbit hole a bit.  I am going to reach out to the MRCG group for some help.
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>> Lights up when "transmitting".
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>> Cv
>> Sent from my iPhone