Bruce,?
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Thank you for your reply. My answers below:
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USB/LSB/Tune: all three positions, no microphone, PTT to MOX only. Bias pot to minimum and that is the lowest reading I can get to.
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I have been bitten too many time in the past to know that power rules and a am just a pawn to it. ; - ) (Ground radio repairman in the Air Force and satellite controller and network engineer/SME as a contractor.). I have been around RF for a long time. Nothing raises the hair on the back of your neck more when you are standing next to a 10KW TWT (glycol cooled) and 30,000VDC right behind a piece of glass. I shudder to this day. ;-)?
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I don't have a tube checker, visual inspection (original tubes) show no bad indication (does not tell the whole story though). The getter on all three tubes look great.?
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Yesterday I took out almost all the removable cards on the top side, inspected them, took many, many pictures of all components. and replaced them. (I'll remove the frame and get to the ones I had no room to remove.?
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Today I opened the bottom, initial picture of what I saw upon removal of bottom cover. The freaking thing looks like it just came off the shelf. All the inspection paint marks are still in their factory spots. It looks like I opened a time capsule of an extremely well preserved FT-101B.. So now I am even more wary of it. I don't want to screw anything up!!! ?
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Slow, maybe even too slow will be my mantra here. I ordered the cap replacement kits and after I feel good about that will start down that road. But, I don't even want to do that before I have had a chance to inspect it more and talk with as many experts here and anywhere else I can first.?
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I shall take your suggestions to heart and do just that.?
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Please don't take this the wrong way. Joining Facebook is and always will be a step too far for me.?
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Regards,?
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Butch - KA?WWT?
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Butch - KA?WWT
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