As I recall, the early Harris FM-20G/H/H2/H3 & K (starting sometime after 1965) series rigs had that resistor in the PA cavity. It had a short piece of tubing (antenna) at each end of the resistor and if memory serves, the purpose was to attenuate "circulating currents" in the cavity. It worked, and...

I don't have any experience on that xmttr, but I am a bit curious about those rings. This is a real swag.....could those rings possibly be a part of a tube socket? You might try to get some dimensional detail on the ring, and diameter of the circle of finger stock the resister slips into and try to ...

"Who let the dogs out? Who, who"?

Sorry, the devil made me do it! I couldn't resist.

Fossil

Chuck:

It is very clear to me

that the nut doesn't fall far from the tree!

Well done my friend, I'm still cracking up!!!!! Got to be one of the best posts yet!

Fossil

"Hey, fixing toilets and plumbing is traditionally part of the job description, right"?

Shane, you forgot to mention cutting the grass and fixing the owners TV/hi fi equipment, car radio, etc.

Fossil

Paleo........I like that, it has kinda a "high class" tone to it. Wonder what I'd use for a picture.....maybe a one cell amoeba. From the way it sounds....you are in the "limp home mode". Wanna trade bodies??? Mine is suffering from too many years of doing stupid things! And I thought I was in this ...

Bunch of young whippersnappers! I started that crazy stuff in 1965. (Actually during my draft dodging days in the USAF, starting in 62 over in Germany. Got called out a couple times in the wee hours, but that don't really count). Only times it was tough was just following a squadron party with all t...

Hope everyone has a tummy filling experience tomorrow with family and friends.

Soon to be "stuffed".

Fossil

Slightly off topic learning experience! Worked out in SW Iowa on a directional and was sent out to the North tower to hook up the bridge. Got it hooked up and they powered up. Smoke, plasma, smell and me screaming on the radio.........kill it, kill it, kill it! Turned out to be a grossly negative to...

I have it on good authority (I speculated it), that ZEUS did it! You know, that guy with the bolt of lightning in his hand. The God of "arc and spark".

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Ahhh, yessss! The infamous "Phantom Tee".

As stated by others----avoid that at all costs! You would be better off winding your own coils out of 1/4" copper tubing around a stiff form like PVC. Don't use the home made coil with PVC still in it.

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It has been quite some time since I did the SX and Gates series recap. My old fuzzy brain is saying that the mounting is set for a specific physical size of cap................... I was able to get an answer from a friend. The caps need to be physically sized due to the mounting in the PDM area. The...

Well, here we are at one hour past Armageddon, and my bell never rang. I suppose that those of us in "fly over country" without the benefit of smart phones, won't hear any alerts on our devices. I wonder just how well this really worked out. I saw news videos of all kinds of folks looking at their p...

Bob:

I have run into that high temp solder as well, and after reading your post, I am wondering if that stuff is "lead free", or reduced lead solder. And you are are absolutely right about the solder sucking issue.....it really don't suck!

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Just had a somewhat similar issue in an AM-10A. Take a look at the "drive led". Ours would not light up at low power and when I hit full power, the LED flickered, and I had some flickering of output power. Turned out to be a bad IC and fuse. This was a spare module that had been previous;y "factory ...