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  1. OldTech03

    Cant find a radio repair person anywhere

    Well if what you say is true tell me where you are and if the radios are Trams and really are Browning I will gladly take them off your hands. Its interesting all the chatter about no Techs to be found that nobody has made any attempt to contact me for repairs or as far as I can tell anyone...
  2. OldTech03

    Anyone here ever purchased from Mercari?

    I purchased a Spectrum analyzer from a man on there and it turned out to be a good experience but I never went back as a matter of fact I kinda forgot about the site.
  3. OldTech03

    Restore of Yaesu FT757GX and Matching supply restoration.

    This was one of the 4 solid days of trying to get this done for a customer that wanted this ready for Christmas???? Well, I got it done. First, the 757GX needed to be repaired in several areas It didn't xmit, It didn't receive well, the display readout didn't reflect the actual frequency it...
  4. OldTech03

    SBE Console V shops

    Well, I have worked on those before don't remember how many times as many thousands of radios have passed over my workbench I started 50 years back. I do remember SBE used to brag about every single radio being tested before it was shipped. But that was then and this is now. Any radio that has...
  5. OldTech03

    Cant find a radio repair person anywhere

    Well I would have been one that would have gladly paid the freight and Had I been contacted would have taken for repair. I'm not hurting for work I'm currently sitting here at the bench bringing RCI2980 back from the dead it seems all I get anymore are basket cases and they are time consuming as...
  6. OldTech03

    Anybody have one of those Nano VNA's?

    Yea! Thats how to say it.
  7. OldTech03

    Anybody have one of those Nano VNA's?

    Yes even with the 3k dollar units you must calibrate after every change in a configuration of coax, baluns, connectors etc just the way it is until they come out with something even smarter.
  8. OldTech03

    Anybody have one of those Nano VNA's?

    I have a Bird SiteHawk 6000 so I'm looking for a toolbox analyzer and have one of these like you just ordered to keep in my field toolbox. Here is a Man Captain that has done 5 or 6 videos on these I watch all his posts.
  9. OldTech03

    Cant find a radio repair person anywhere

    I have around 150 units on the back burner and about 27 in the shop 2 weeks ago I had 44 units on the shelf and some of those back burners may send it somewhere else but there will be 50 in their place so it is just the way it is.
  10. OldTech03

    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB This Weekend

    You mean All is fair in love and RF!
  11. OldTech03

    Stimulus passed house!

    One day Andy One day.
  12. OldTech03

    trying to correct internal counter -

    You may consider doing a counter alignment the procedure is in the service manual.
  13. OldTech03

    trying to correct internal counter -

    If you use the clarifier and set the receiver to read 27.2045 and then transmit does it show the same as the receive setting it should? It should also show the same offset on all channels. The frequency should also show the same transmit frequency on an external counter as it shows on the Cobras...
  14. OldTech03

    trying to correct internal counter -

    Does this unit have the clarifier locked for receive and transmit or does it only control the receive?
  15. OldTech03

    Browning MKlll receiver

    I could be somebody's misguided attempt to control "HUM, FEEDBACK, RF FEEDBACK ???" Usually, these kinds of changes are not based on knowledge, and don't hesitate to start with a clean slate and just put it back the way the factory designed it. Then you can start over if you have any knowledge...
  16. OldTech03

    New President Lincoln 2 V3

    HUH? The only way you can ever have 3 or more radios on SSB enjoying a solid communications roundtable is if they are all capable of shifting both rec. And Tx freq. at the same time. The only thing that would not make that true would be the clarifiers somehow not done correctly.
  17. OldTech03

    Who remembers Johnson Messenger "Black Tube"

    It was simply a bridge rectifier inside a black shell it increased the plate voltages which increased power.
  18. OldTech03

    Mobile anybody on here run a high power (5kw+) suburban? i need some advice

    I must concur with Mohave in the context " I could be wrong and have been before" but that does not mean you can just ignore suggestions from those of us that have lived in this realm First I have installed and set up more than my share of 5 to 15K mobile systems and when I suggest that maybe...
  19. OldTech03

    Mobile anybody on here run a high power (5kw+) suburban? i need some advice

    This reminds me of what my Dad said when I came home with a brand new Boss 429 He took his pipe out of his mouth he said rev that thing up again so took it up to about 4 grand and let settle down he looked at me and "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU NEED WITH THAT MUCH POWER". I said the same reason you...