BAMA Working here, using Firefox - I've downloaded the Gonset 50 files
to my machine, if you experience a continued Lack of Joy in your efforts,
email me privately and I'll send them to you....
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ObAMradio: Got my Valiant working again - the caps I used in the output
network circuit had #24 gauge lead wires - instead of twisting the leads
and using three (there are three caps paralelled) like the Johnson
engineers did, I tied them together at the cases and ran only lead - and
it melted like a fuse. This went unnoticed, save that the rig tuning
went radically wonky - so instead of investigating I chalked it up to
summer / dry ground under my antenna - the ensuing strain then degraded
and eventually killed a $28 mica that I had in the tank circuit....
D'OH!!
So yesterday I had a few blessed hours to myself, and I corrected these
faults, wired up a better PTT/Audio chain, the Rig now stable at full
output, the antenna system back to 1.2:1 on 80M, and I'll get back on the
air this evening, or tomorrow night.... ;}
Cheers
John KB6SCO
Valiant, Ranger, ELMAC AF-67
R-390, R-390A, R-388
