[R-390] Big Mistake Please Help

Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:35:13 -0600

Ronnie,

If it is any consolation, I made careful measurements of my PTO before I
took it apart.  I took digital pictures of it.  I made marks on the shaft
and housing.  Everything was done at 8 MHz.  After I put it all together, IT
WAS STILL WAY OFF!  So don't feel bad.

If I remember correctly, the way I got it back on was to take my signal
generator and find where the receiver was with the generator set very high.
Then I walked the PTO back to where it should be.  Sure made a big
difference in sensitivity!  I guess you could also count the PTO with a freq
counter to get it back on.

73,

Steve, K9NG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronnie Davis" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 4:48 PM
Subject: [R-390] Big Mistake Please Help

> Hello
> Well all was going well with the Capehart R-390A until last night. I
pulled
> the RF Deck out to start working on it, and after cleaning for sometime, I
> remembered that I did not set the PTO to 8 Mhz before pulling the deck?
> After I remembered that I just thought about messing up big time! I had
> already been turning the Mhz change knob to clean the deck, and the
> kilocycle change knob has also been turned for cleaning. So the problem
is,
> that I have no idea where the PTO was at when I pulled the RF Deck? I knew
> better than this, I knew from the manuals and the videos that I should
have
> put the PTO on 8 Mhz but while in the heat of working on it I just slam
> forgot. Please tell me there is a way to find out where the PTO is so I
can
> install the RF Deck when I finished with it. Sure hope I did not mess up
to
> bad? Again a Stupid Beginners Mistake
> Thanks again
> Ronnie
> KE4VPN
>
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