Hello and thanks for the post.. I experienced the same issue with my XV144 transverter. Collector-emitter bypass capacitor didn't work for me because activated overload protection on startup. I soldered the capacitor directly on base-emitter of Q7. This cured the problem 100%. 73's LZ2JR Boris
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