29-03-2014, 06:41 PM
It is no longer a basket case.
I have found out what attracted the twiddler and fixed it.
An aerial wire had taken a little nip against the edge of the PCB and was held together by the cotton stuff in the wire. Twiddler failed to spot it.
The twiddled coils could do with a final tune up and that is it.
I need to look into a signal generator of some kind perhaps I could re-purpose the mixer/oscillator on a PCB from another basket case that looks like it is a write off.
The oscillator does run but the ferrite rod is totally smashed so that it could be a donor for a small signal generator/pantry transmitter.
I have found out what attracted the twiddler and fixed it.
An aerial wire had taken a little nip against the edge of the PCB and was held together by the cotton stuff in the wire. Twiddler failed to spot it.
The twiddled coils could do with a final tune up and that is it.
I need to look into a signal generator of some kind perhaps I could re-purpose the mixer/oscillator on a PCB from another basket case that looks like it is a write off.
The oscillator does run but the ferrite rod is totally smashed so that it could be a donor for a small signal generator/pantry transmitter.
