26-05-2011, 11:41 AM
My capacitors from Mark arrived this morning and turned out to be the posh yellow jobs so THANKS VERY MUCH to him; I hope I can reciprocate his kindness in some way in the future.
I fitted one of these easily in the configuration suggested by Trevor and when the old waxie was out of the way I could get at and change a Hunt's thing that was cracked.
I also changed the capacitor suggested by Rob but VHF still doesn't work. I'll leave off that until I can positively rule out the wave-change switch.
The other evening I found that the EM80 IS working but it's very dim. This however is a root vegetable of no consequence.
The other interesting thing I discovered while fiddling was about 555 timer ICs: "They don't like it up 'em." I discovered this by connecting my 'frequency generator' cross the HT by mistake. I've got another ten on order.
As ever, thanks for all the help and advise.
- Joe
I fitted one of these easily in the configuration suggested by Trevor and when the old waxie was out of the way I could get at and change a Hunt's thing that was cracked.
I also changed the capacitor suggested by Rob but VHF still doesn't work. I'll leave off that until I can positively rule out the wave-change switch.
The other evening I found that the EM80 IS working but it's very dim. This however is a root vegetable of no consequence.
The other interesting thing I discovered while fiddling was about 555 timer ICs: "They don't like it up 'em." I discovered this by connecting my 'frequency generator' cross the HT by mistake. I've got another ten on order.
As ever, thanks for all the help and advise.
- Joe
