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Sorry to hear of your Elmer's passing doffo. Prayers are with the family and friends. Thank you all for the show of kindness and prayers. You all have always showed me support and kindness .My words of this being the best place for expert advice from kind people still stand. Thank you all...

Yes, you read that right. Sitting here in the hospital recouping after my 3rd widow maker heart attack. March 2013 - first widow maker, left me in a coma. March 2019 - second widow maker. April 2025 - third widow maker. Was arguing with the town drunk on the radio when this one happened...

Got a doosey on the desk today. It's a Galaxy Saturn (EPT360014B) 6 band. Story: Been sitting in storage for over 10 years (in a not very ventilated space). Visual Evaluation: Corrosion on SO239 connector. Rust on top cover. Operational Evaluation: Power supply cranked up to 16.65 volts DC...

I'm not going anywhere. And I agree 100% with you. I'm just taking some time to go through and reorganize all my parts and desk. It's all a mess. Have a great day.

I'm not going anywhere. Just decided not to post any longer. Seems like that one thread is now starting to bleed off into other threads I post asking for assistance, with snide remarks, as though they can't let it go as the rant it was. I did notice one major thing about the reactions from my...

Just wanted to take this time to say thank you to all that has helped me out through the past few years when I needed help. I feel the tension on this site from my recent thread of a rant. Some took it out of context, some took offense to it and some just can't let it go as just the rant that...

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Hi all, I been buying my parts in bulk orders of 30 or more of everything I need. I'm now running kinda low on 817 and 1012 regulators. I was getting them both from Digikey, but they won't sell anything less than a 300 dollar order on the 817's. Anyone know of a good source for 817 and...

I thought about throwing some fans on it, but it seems to run pretty cool without one/two. I've only had one other RFX95HD install that didn't require the fans to cool it. This thang turned out pretty nice. I did have to drop the swing back to 120w PEP so the key (carrier) would come up. Now...

Correction, After realigning it, the output is now 150w PEP swing, but only keys 7w. Any way to bring the key up in the radio a little so the amp will key about 12w? I think 7w swinging to 150w PEP may sound choppy, not sure yet cause I haven't gotten a radio check yet. Listening on my yaesu...

Well, took some time out to look over this frequency counter (one that stands up vertical behind frequency counter) module. All resistors are intact and register within tolerance of specified resistance. Replaced all electrolytic caps, still nothing so I yanked out the 7805 regulator to check...

Update! After taking some time to go over this radio before trashing it (would've been a shame to trash a brand new radio), I found the transmit pin had broken free from the mic socket board, even cracked the trace going to that pin. Ran a jumper wire from the transmit pin on mic board over to...

I was just having a rant about a local drunk comparing me to the old "tech" (had no degree, college education in the field either) which is deceased now, although I'm the one putting all these limiters back in, removing all the junk swing mods from these radios and getting these radios back...

I'm no tech, never claimed to be, I just title myself as my locals title me since they don't have a TECH around here. I AM A HOBBYIST, but my locals call me their tech. I'm only doing it as a hobby to help these locals out, until a real licensed tech comes around. Anytime I need help, I always...

Like I said earlier, I apologize if I offended others. As far as me claiming to be a tech, I just go by what my locals call me. I have no college degree, certificate, etc... To be honest, I've seen a lot of people in society brag on their degree, college education but once they're put under the...

I apologize if I offended anyone on here, that was not my intention by any means. I'm just fed up with a couple of my locals (who are drunks) always trying to compare me to their old local tech (whom I got along with fine) who is passed away now. Their old tech (he wasn't really old in age, bout...

Got a rant!!! Ok, as many of you already are aware of, the old school techs are passing away, retiring, etc...leaving us current techs to pick up the pieces. Well, we current techs don't like being compared to old techs, many of which are not with us any longer. We current techs are fixing all...

Rock on cable, great job...

Check your Passthrough regulator and AF regulator. The Passthrough regulator is mounted on the side of the chassis, big fat transistor with three legs. The AF regulator is the smaller transistor standing up freely in front of the Passthrough regulator.

Modifications I removed: Resistor/diode combo mod removed from bottom of AF regulator over to the modulation transistor. Replaced 10k resistor (wasn't factory) in R238 location back to a 5.6k resistor. Replaced 1k resistor (not factory) in R174 location to a 5.1k resistor. Replaced 3.3k...