[TenTec] Corsair I refurb project

[Al Gulseth]

May be apples and oranges, but I had an issue with a Corsair "back when" where 
the RX on 40M would die after about an hour of operation (as you will see, 
this would have affected the TX also.) I called TT service and was advised to 
re-solder the bandswitch pins on the crystal board. When I pulled it out, I 
could see a hairline crack around the [square] bandswitch pin in the (round) 
PCB hole. A quick resoldering of all the pins and everything was happy. Yep, 
an actual "square peg in a round hole" problem HI HI!!

73, Al

On Sat October 24 2015 9:27:19 am Bill Acito wrote:
> Must be Corsair week.  :-)
>
> I have  a new-to-me Corsair I -- my winter refurb project. Good receive
> (mostly), good condition,  two primary issues:
>
> 1.
>  No RX 160 and 80: freq counter bounces around on  0.180 to 0.190 Mhz on
>  these bands. I assume I should be looking at the wafer switches and
> oscillators? All other bands are fine on RX.
>
> 2. No power out on
> TX -- zero.  Scope says I have good output from the low-level driver. Do
>  the finals fail open? Do they both go together? Any easy way to check
> if it's the drivers or the actual finals in the PA module?  I also read
> that there was a common T/R diode fail that impacted ALC? What were the
> symptoms of this fail?
>
> Bill W1PA
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