Curse you Ed Knobloch!

.... Well, not really....

You made me think of my RA6790GM, and I remembered that
I hadn't plugged it in since I moved mumble, mumble years
ago, so I did.... Dead as a brick... My isn't that pretty,
there are little dust motes floating in the....That's not dust,
that's smoke!

And there, stood another reminder of why I don't spec
Kemet tantalums anymore. A nice blue 6.8uf 35V one... with
a sooty brown ring around the middle. They make great 0 ohm
jumpers.

73,

-Chuck Harris



Edward Knobloch wrote:
Hello, Keith

Be very careful with your new Racals.
Unless you have the semi-rare optional preamp installed,
the quad FET first mixer on board A-2 is dangerously exposed
to static damage. I stupidly used a type N to SO-239 adapter,
and plugged in a random length of wire in the shack,
to try out my receiver, and that ruined one mixer.
Now I use an old Ameco PCL-P Nuvistor preamp to isolate
the Racal FET's from the antenna.