[TenTec] Thanks Mike

[Kim Elmore]

I think that you did get some useful information to pass on to your 
friend. The most useful is that this will be no walk in the park. 
Your friend must be meticulous and methodical and be prepared to 
spend a lot of time on this project if they really transmitted into 
the receiver front end with much power. They may get lucky: maybe 
something acted like a fuse and prevented damage from getting too far 
and maybe it didn't. You did get some good advice about what to check 
first and where to start checking. Your friend will need, as a 
minimum, a complete schematic with knowledge of the radio's theory of 
operation, a good scope, probably a signal generator, and maybe the 
equivalent of a good VTVM.

If your friend is unable to dedicate the time or feels like they 
don't have the trouble shooting experience or knowledge needed to 
take on a "project" radio, which this has now surely become, they 
really should box it up and send it to TT for an evaluation.

In short: there is no easy, straightforward way out of this. Stuff 
like this is relatively rare  and on a par with low-end lightning 
damage, so there is no cookbook answer to what might have been destroyed.

Kim N5OP

At 02:24 PM 5/13/2012, you wrote:
>Thank you Mike for the encouraging comment on the damage from his amp.
>I will pass it along to him.
>
>And I am sorry to see the band width and time wasted on the snarks.
>--
>Paul K. WA0BAG
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