[Racal] Racal manuals

[Terry O'Laughlin]

Troubleshooting procedures to the component level obviously can't be 
documented completely in modern radios.  And even if they were, as an old 
tech I knew once said - procedures are written for known failures.

That said, Racal's 6790 manual is written for board swappers, pure and 
simple.  It is missing all kinds of basic information, like alignment set 
points.  It was probably written to satisfy the minimum contractual 
requirements for the military.  I have my doubts whether the 6790 was 
designed for real depot service like Tobyhanna used to do to R-390(A) 
modules.  I suspect that circuit boards all went back to Racal, or were 
just tossed and replaced.

Terry O'


At 16:07 2002-5-29 -0400, you wrote:
>         Hi,
>         Manuals don't trouble shoot hardware to the component level because
>they would be a foot    thick. Good thing for us poor boys who can only
>afford to buy broken hardware cheap and fix     it.