[MRCG] GRC-106/AM3349 internal cooling blower wanted

W6MQI W6MQI at protonmail.com
Mon Jun 27 08:05:14 EDT 2022


Hey Andy,
Thanks! I'm very excited about my achievement this thing is a beast to work on worst of all was deciphering the manuals.

Here's a run down of what was fixed

- Two bad transistors in the inverter
- Bad diode in the inverter
- Bad transistor on the bias board this one was a real BITCH to get at.
- The internal blower turned out to be an unsoldered wire in the DB15 connector on the inverter. This one through me for a while because I was getting continuity, but no power would pass through to power up the blower. I found it by accident while moving the wiring harness around the wire just fell out. This wire had never been soldered into the DB15 the wire was tinned but not soldered into the connector since the radio was built just amazing.
- Found some nuts and bolts floating around inside by past technicians one of them could have been disastrous if it came in contact with the B+ inside the RF plenum. Can you say KABOOM!

So yes an on the air test is in order with all modes SSB (USB), AM, and CW I should be around anytime this week for an evening test.

73, Dave
W6MQI

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