Hello,
I am an Electronic Technician Chief in the US Navy overseas. I have
two broken radios in need of repair and need some help.
1) Heathkit HW-5400. I bought this off of Ebay and it sat for a
couple of months while I was on travel in the shipping boxes.
Finally, I got it out and plugged it in. It had power going up and
down with VSWR fluctuating. This was odd because my other radio
(Harris) had zero problems on same frequency and antenna. After a
couple of minutes of this it went kaput! Never even had a chance to
get on the air with it. I'm guessing the final or drivers? I have
origional assembly/tech manual from Heathkit. Any help in ordering
finals or ID'ing what part to buy would be great. It had 3 RTO
electronics repair stickers inside when opening and one of these
stickers showed it had been repaired right before I bought it. I
emailed RTO with zero response.
2) I have an old Kenwood TS-140 with PLL problem. I saw a couple of
posts about a capacitor that may go out on a different Kenwood model
and recommended replacement. I have a tech manual on this and any
help with what capacitor to replace on the TS140 so I can get this
back up would be awesome. Definitely a PLL problem as I get the
decimal points and then when I move the VFO frequency display
temporarily comes back and then goes back to decimal points.
Regards and advanced thanks for any T-shooting help,
ETC(SW/AW) Mike Kendall, IT9/KE6CVH