[R-390] Removing Megacycle Change shaft

Barry n4buq at knology.net
Fri Jul 10 10:41:58 EDT 2026


I now see where turning off "Smart Features" may have disabled other features like spell check, etc.  Not a big deal for me but we'll see how that goes.

73,
Barry - N4BUQ

> Ok Barry,
> I was having the same type of problems when I was reading the messages from my
> iPhone.
> The solution was to turn the "Apple Intelligence" OFF.
> 
> 73, Jacques, VE2JFE in Montreal
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net <r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net> De la part de
> Barry via R-390
> Envoyé : 10 juillet 2026 10:18
> À : Barry <n4buq at knology.net>
> Cc : Jacques Fortin <jacques.f at videotron.ca>; R-390 Mailing List
> <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> Objet : Re: [R-390] Removing Megacycle Change shaft
> 
> I tried turning off "Smart features" and that seems to have stopped it.  For
> now...
> 
> 73,
> Barry - N4BUQ
> 
>> It's on my Windows machine with a Chrome browser.  I think there's a
>> clickable item at the top of some of the newer posts that I think can
>> cause it to display the AI stuff; however, when I started the GMail
>> session this morning to read new messages, the first one in this
>> thread automatically displayed a rather long "AI overview" of the
>> "conversation".  I find that somewhat annoying and would rather not see the
>> "noise".
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Barry - N4BUQ
>> 
>>> Hi Barry, on what ?
>>> A iPhone ?
>>> Jack14 iPhone 16e
>>> 
>>> Le 10 juill. 2026 à 09:23, Barry Scott via R-390
>>> <r-390 at mailman.qth.net> a écrit
>>> :
>>> 
>>>Is there any way to turn off the AI summary at the top of the messages?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Barry - N4BUQ
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 8:28 AM rochep--- via R-390
>>> <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Awesome!! Will be a miracle if I get this thing back together again
>>>> and working! (Like it was before I ripped it apart to replace a MHz
>>>> gear clamp that would have been EASY to replace if I knew the clamp
>>>> was on the
>>>> outside!)
>>>> 
>>>> Paul
>>>> 
>>>> From: Jacques Fortin <jacques.f at videotron.ca>
>>>> Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2026 at 9:24 AM
>>>> To: rochep at comcast.net <rochep at comcast.net>; r-390 at mailman.qth.net <
>>>> r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>>>> Subject: RE: [R-390] Removing Megacycle Change shaft
>>>> 
>>>> Hello Paul,
>>>> 1_ Clamp faces OUT.
>>>> 2_ MHz gear mates with the INNER gear of the differential.
>>>> 
>>>> See pictures.
>>>> 
>>>> 73, Jacques, VE2JFE in Montreal
>>>> 
>>>> A quick question for gear re-assemblers. For the MHZ gear (on MHZ
>>>> shaft) Chapter 10 of manual says the clamp faces IN when assembling
>>>> (page 10-15) but another section of Chapter 10 shows the clamp
>>>> facing OUT. Chapter
>>>> 6.3.19 also says the MHZ gear clamp faces OUT.
>>>> I ask because when the clamp is facing IN I am unable to merge the
>>>> gear with the INNER gear of that big “differential assembly” (which
>>>> uses the detent spring).  Regardless of clamp in or clamp out, does
>>>> the MHZ gear merge with the OUTERMOST gear of that differential
>>>> assembly (as does that small gear just above the MHZ gear) or does
>>>> the MHz gear merge with the INNER gear of the differential assembly?
>>>> It looks to be inner from the pictures, but hard to tell for sure.
>>>> Paul
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