[NLRS] W0ZQ/B 222.060

[W0ZQ at aol.com]

Hello NLRS land.  Last summer my 222 beacon  was subjected to a near by 
lighting strike and it stop operating.  The  beacon is an old Hamtronix transverter 
driven by a homebrew 10m QRP  oscillator.  The main board has an output power 
of about one watt which I  used to drive a small amp to 5 watts which in turn 
drove a Mirage C106 to about  30 watts out.  The near strike seemed to have 
taken out just about every  solid state device in the system with the exception 
of some of the LO NPN  drivers ... the LO was the only thing working !   
After replacing the  J108 FETs in the mixer, the two transistor 10m QRP driver, 
and all the RF  stages, its now alive again and doing about 1 watt.  That is the 
good  news.  The bad news it that it appears that all the higher RF gain 
stages,  including the C106 amp, are toast.  Also, the 222 phasing line for the 
two  omni loops seemed to have suffered as well as they have high SWR.    So, 
the next job is to climb the pine tree and to see what is going on with the  222 
omni's ..... I may need to take them down and fix them as well.  So on  a 
temporary basis, the W0ZQ/B on 222.060 is running at one watt into my 222 yagi  
pointed north from Bloomington.  I am going to leave it run this way for a  few 
days to see how it does.  SWL reports regarding its tone are  appreciated.  
Also, if anyone has a 10 dB 222 gain stage, perhaps like the  C106, etc, that 
they want to part with, let me know.  I would like to get  the output power 
level back up to the 30 watt range eventually.  I only  need the transmit side so 
its even better if the preamp and/or relays don't  work.

73, Jon
W0ZQ  

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