Good afternoon all,
When my father-in-law, KD4WJ passed away, I inherited some of his ham
gear. Some of y'all may remember my question about the Scout and ALC
light which turned out to be a mis-adjusted ALC pot.
Yesterday I turned my attention to the Paragon. It gave me some fits
starting up - the receiver was intermittent, all the pots were scratchy,
and it seems like the memory back-up battery is dead as the clock
started at 12:00.
Interestingly, the intermittent receiver fixed itself when I
accidentally hit TUNE for a split second trying to turn on the 6.0KHz
filter. All I can guess was that the transmit / receive relay had dirty
contacts. ;)
Most of the pots stopped being scratchy when worked back-n-forth a
couple of times, with the exception of the RF GAIN pot.
So I've got to try some Deoxit on that pot and change the memory back-up
battery. So my question is - how hard are these Paragons to work on?
thanks much and 73,
ben, kd5byb
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Ben Hall, kd5byb@kd5byb.net - ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, NEVER OUTGUNNED.
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