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    VR16, the final transistor's bias control is famous for getting blown out when a final fails. Turning it tends not to show much...
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    loosecannon reacted to Hawkeye351's post in the thread Why? with Like Like.
    Yes, by realigning the RF stage will usually clean it up. Then if I want a little less AMC attack, I will strap a 22k ohm resistor...
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    I know Brad myself and call him a friend aside from wwdx. Maybe I misunderstood the post and knowing Brad isn't around to respond, I may...
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    575nightrider, your post is actually somewhat understandable, given the current nature of social media in general. In most places, its...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Why?.
    LOL he sounds like quite a character. Does the 4800 have the board version that uses SMT like the 2950DX? Because i found that the NPC...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Why?.
    I appreciate the reply. when you say NPC, are you including volting the final along with it? i never do that, but many do, so i feel...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Why?.
    The reason i ask is that we generally call the "adding diode to existing resistor" a swing mod, while we call adding the diode/resistor...
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    loosecannon reacted to nomadradio's post in the thread SWR & TUNDERBOLT 305 with Like Like.
    The radio most likely puts out a fairly clean signal, without a lot of extra frequencies besides your channel frequency coming out of...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Why?.
    Hawkeye, are you talking about the difference between adding a diode to a certain resistor that already exists, and adding the...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Amp help.
    yeah Shadetree i just don't know. I mean, technically you are trying to feed RF into the collectors of the transistors when you hook it...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Amp help.
    i dont know that this would have damaged anything. someone correct me if im wrong here, but it would seem to me that if the input of...
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    also, if you are measuring at TP8, this chassis drops down 2.5khz on AM TX. so if you measured 35.005 on receive, you'd measure 35.0025...
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    If anyone is wondering what the two cut wires are in Nomad's 4th pic, that's factory and would go to the 10KC switch if they had...
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    There was a time when a customer might ask "Is this radio discontinued"? I would answer with the question "Is it in your hand?". If it...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread REFLECTED POWER.
    well a lot of this is above my pay grade, but here is more than you'll ever want to know about this subject...