[Premium-Rx] WJ-8711A Front Panel Problem

[Michael O'Beirne]

Gents

Am I being stupid or just old fashioned, but a propos the advice of John 
tonight, surely the panel of this radio will be bolted in quite a few places 
to the chassis with plenty of bare metal-to-metal contact?  I can't easily 
conceive a design that was not.

Perhaps my upbringing with AR88s, RA17s, 1772s and the usual batch of green 
radios has inserted an assumption of rock solid mechanical construction that 
is no longer valid today.

73s
Michael
G8MOB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Administrator/jhafele" <jhafele at optonline.net>
To: <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:47 PM
Subject: [Premium-Rx] WJ-8711A Front Panel Problem


> Robert-
>
> Take a jumper cable with strong alligator clips and connect one end to a
> well grounded piece of hardware on the rear of the front panel. Connect 
> the
> other end to the main chassis. If the problem is cured, make a small 
> ground
> wire with soldered lugs (not crimped) and attach it to a well grounded 
> point
> on the rear of the front panel and the other end to hardware on the main
> chassis. Make this cable as short as possible. A faulty or intermittent
> ground connection between the front panel and main chassis appears to be
> fairly common with these receivers for some reason. It worked for me a 
> while
> back and I knew of another similar situation some time ago, too. It will 
> not
> hurt to give it a try. An easy fix it if pans out.
>
> Good luck.
>
> John WA1NLJ  Fairfield, CT.