>I am looking for someone who can fix my kenwood TL922 that is anywhere
>within 100 miles or so of marinette wis.
>I don't really want to send it UPS to be fixed [ could be expensive or
>damaged in shipping ] ..
> Something went wrong while trying to tune up on the wrong band.
>I now have high swr on all bands and little or no output. Found a few
>suspect caps. and a shorted Z diode
? The Zener in the 922 is seemingly extraordinarily tough. An
extraordinary current pulse is required to cause it to short. A shorted
Zener is an indicator or intermittent parasitic oscillation at c. 120MHz.
Grid RFC damage typically accompanies such an event.
later, Jim
- Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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