[TenTec] Trouble with Triton IV

[Winston F. Jones]

Hi Michael,
Push around on the rec-trans switch, receive antenna jack and others in that
area. I had a Ten-Tec 580 Delta which was having a similar problem and it
was a broken receive antenna phono jack. Some metal had apparently broken
off and was shorting out the signals. I wedged a small piece of plastic down
in the thing enough to open up the short and it worked just fine. Just a
possibility.
73, Winston K4CWQ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Colvin" <mcolvin@myrealbox.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 18:46 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Trouble with Triton IV


I purchased a Triton IV from eBay recently.  It came with an intermittent
problem in the receiver.  The receiver would suddenly lose RF sensitivity
for no explainable reason.  A little jiggling of parts and checking turned
up a cold solder joint in the ALC/SWR section of the unit.

Everything worked fine until a week or so later when the receiver suddenly
lost sensitivity in the middle of a QSO.  I went through the same procedure
and have been unable to locate the source of the problem this time.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks

Michael Colvin, KBOMJ
kb0mj@arrl.net, for amateur radio-related mail
mcolvin@myrealbox.com for general mail
http://colvin.info
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

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