--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "twoway_tech" <jcar...@...> wrote:
>
> Hello, Hello
>
> I have a Micor UHF repeater station on amateur. I have had it tuned and
> tested perfect since last fall. I sent my elements to Bomar and had them
> temperature compensated and all that good stuff. After the repeater has set
> out in the garage all winter, (unheated, in Indiana) I powered it up today to
> find that the transmitter didn't appear to be working. After some tests I
> found that the element was off frequency. I tuned back to frequency and
> tested. It stayed on frequency for about 2 minutes and then drifted off about
> 40 Kc. From that point on it would not tune up. I installed the crystal in
> another element and it tuned right up and stayed that way for the hour that I
> left it running before I had to leave. I am wondering if it was as simple as
> the element being bad or maybe something else going on. If it is just the
> element, I wonder why it just decided to take a dump???
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> -Jordan
>
Quartz is an inorganic compound, as it contains no carbon atoms.
