This is the first of this model I have here and am looking for others that have experienced problems with the exciter (radio PA). It came to me with shorted RT1 finals. I replaced them and kicked it out, as the owner did not want me to mess with all of the "upgrades" and add-ons he paid some duck (sic) with a truck for.
A week later he tells me finals are blown again, radio comes back, but they are not blown. At this point, I tell him, this radio is not leaving here with some assclown mods and better work. So, I removed some assclown snake oil, (left some in because I didnt think a giant gobstopper AM regulator or 2200uF electrolytic would hurt anything)cleaned up some sloppy work and did some alignment, because the radio was lined up like a truck that was jacknifed the week before.
Thing is SSB TX sucks. It is distorted and doesn't start to clean up unless I bias the driver and final stages hard. I adjusted the idle current to 100ma per stage, with the trimmers but it sucks. It sucked before it came in here and it sucks now.
Anyone ever have any luck getting these RCI POS radios to clean up? How?
Thanks!
A week later he tells me finals are blown again, radio comes back, but they are not blown. At this point, I tell him, this radio is not leaving here with some assclown mods and better work. So, I removed some assclown snake oil, (left some in because I didnt think a giant gobstopper AM regulator or 2200uF electrolytic would hurt anything)cleaned up some sloppy work and did some alignment, because the radio was lined up like a truck that was jacknifed the week before.
Thing is SSB TX sucks. It is distorted and doesn't start to clean up unless I bias the driver and final stages hard. I adjusted the idle current to 100ma per stage, with the trimmers but it sucks. It sucked before it came in here and it sucks now.
Anyone ever have any luck getting these RCI POS radios to clean up? How?
Thanks!
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