Mike brings up an excellent point - "grabbing the wrong knob"
Our club has an SB-220. It's used by all manner of folks & in the frenzy of a
contest it gets lots of abuse. I found that changing the bandswitch knob to
something significantly different (smaller) reduces the cuss words heard
through the wee hours.
On the cooling thread.... We all operate using headphones - the noise
from 'station #2" is always worse than any equipment noise. This said, we have
a big muffin fan (10" diameter - BIG!) sitting on top of the SB-220 pulling air
out of the cabinet. Makes a huge difference in the internal temps. We throttle
the fan back with a normal lamp dimmer switch to abt half speed, the noise
really not a problem.
It's ugly, but then the '220 looks pretty stupid with that tiny bandswitch knob
anyway!
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