[R-390] R-390 Problems

[Cecil Acuff]

Don't you just hate it when that happens....

Good refresher course though......:-)

Cecil...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David C. Hallam" <dhallam at rapidsys.com>
To: "R-390 at mailman. qth. net" <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:43 PM
Subject: [R-390] R-390 Problems


> SO JUST SHOOT ME!
>
> After several days of bench work trouble shooting trying to locate a loss 
> of
> sensitivity problem with my R-390 and introducing several new ones  by
> screwing up the alignment that had to be corrected, I came to the 
> conclusion
> that I couldn't find anything wrong with the receiver.  It passed the
> sensitivity and selectivity tests with flying colors.  Back to the drawing
> board.
>
> I put the receiver back into the rack and hooked up the coax.  Wait a
> minute, the reception is changing as I wiggle the coax.  This was a ready
> made up RG-8X jumper that I purchased at Radio Shack just before the
> problems started.  Close examination reveled a bad connection in one of 
> the
> PL-259's.  There must be a moral in here somewhere.
>
> David
> KC2JD
>
>
>
>
>
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