[TMC] GPR-90 what were those engineers thinking ???

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 A few years back i had a real nice SX-100 that had a bad 50 kc IF box in it.  What a pain. 

Larry
W0OGH


  -------------- Original message from Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net>: --------------


> Mark Foltarz wrote:> But what get me is the real poor design for the enclosure that houses the 
> second mixer, oscillator and buffer. 
> >> It is a night mare to remove. I have no idea what they were thinking when they  
> thought  up this poor arrangement.
> >
> > They must have thought it would never  go bad...
> >
> >   
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I can't remember how my GPR-90 is put together so I'll take your word 
> for it being a kludge.  But I don't think they're the only ones who did 
> this.  A lot of Hallicrafters double conversion sets including the SX-88 
> and the SX-101 for sure used a 2nd mixer sub-chassis that is a separate 
> box mounted to the main chassis that's wired into the circuitry.  The 
> only way to get inside it is to un-wire all those interconnects and 
> remove it.  I remember using the same language to describe the Halli 
> engineers ;-)
> 
> 73, Bob W9RAN
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