----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Skolnick" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] VHF ant
>I was thinking along the same lines as Carl. > > For your main radio it sounds like the first-stage preamplifier on the > receiver isn't working. It's probably just one transistor on that > radio. That might be repairable if you have a good grounded-tip > soldering iron, can manage reasonable ESD practices, and can find the > part. Paying someone to do it is unlikely to be economic. If it's an > IC you won't be doing a field repair. > > In short, you let the magic smoke out! *grin* > > The near-simultaneous loss of your other radio is consistent with > Carl's suggestion of a nearby lightning strike. > > 73 es sail fast, dave KO4MI > S/V Auspicious Hi, Dave, Sorry we'll miss crossing paths... The rx on 68 has been troublesome for more than a year. I'd thought it maybe an anomaly in GT based on where folks were txg from, but it's severe here, so I conclude it's the same thing. I agree about affordability of repair, and I'm not adequately equipped for component-level repair, but I think I'll be able to chase that down (antenna feed or radio) relatively shortly. L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand (Richard Bach) _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
