[VHFcontesting] rig recommendations for portable operation--FT897D comments

Alex kr1st at amsat.org
Fri Nov 28 12:48:12 EST 2008


And believe it or not, the HW-101 had grounding issues that could be
remedied by tightening the mounting screws for the PCBs. :)

So always keep that screw driver handy. :)

73,
--Alex KR1ST
http://www.kr1st.com
http://www.airlinkexpress.org

> The "tighten the circuit board screws" isn't an oscillation fix unique
> to the FT857/897.  I have had to do it to a Yaesu FT100D and Icom 551D
> as well, and have had a couple of friends have to do it to their Icom
> 706mKIIG as well.
> 
> 73s John AA5JG



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