[TenTec] Paragon 585

[Bob McGraw K4TAX]

The real issue starts with the bare PC board not being adequately cleaned after the etching process.  And most were if all were not plated. Thus some of the etch chemicals remained. The boards were populated and soldered. This left some off the acid etch chemical under the solder to do its nasty chemical work for years.   Solder “touch-up” will correct some issues for a period of time but the gremlin remains to only appear later in time. 

The only correct and long term solution I have found is to fully depopulate the board, clean it to bare bright copper, fully tin the board with silver bearing solder and repopulate the board.  THAT IS A LOT OF WORK.    And one must be very careful with the parts removal and installation process as some parts are no longer available.  For these reasons, I long ago stopped repairing the original Paragon radios. 

73 
Bob, K4TAX


Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 31, 2020, at 8:30 AM, Pete Ferrand <petef at sprynet.com> wrote:
> 
> Not all the pc boards, just replace the solder on the major and minor loop boards. Did that to mine ten years ago and it worked perfectly ever since.
> 
> Pete
> WB2QLL
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> An update on the Paragon 585, now have full TX, by total re-solder of the 2nd mixer board, but its not all good news, I set the frequency at 7.050mHz and my counter shows a frequency of 4.300mHz, a difference of 2.75mHz, ah says I to myself I have seen that frequency on the minor loop board terminal 87.
>> I replaced U5 (mc1496p), still no joy, checked the output from U4 onto pin4 of U5, seems ok, checked continuity on T2, that was ok.
>> Stumped but some success.
>> Any pointers now please, I suspect that I will end up doing a total re-solder of all of the remaining PCB,s, but as I am retired on my own I have the time.
>> 73
>> Snowy G0HZE  
>> _______________________________________________
>> TenTec mailing list
>> TenTec at contesting.com
>> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec