[Amps] Alpha 78 Failure

Paul Gerhardt phgerhardt at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 10:38:05 PST 2011


After a couple of years working well and many thousands of Q's the
Alpha 78 quit.  It still switches to xmit, I can hear the relays,
there is a small amount of grid current but no plate current so I am
thinking that the bias is not switching.  The HV reads normal.  Last
time I worked on it I replaced and reworked some parts on the QSK
board two or three years ago.

Does anyone have an idea of how to troubleshoot this?

Paul

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Paul Gerhardt
K3PG
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QRP ARCI 6674
FP 274
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