I am repairing a FT847 from a fellow amateur. How is complaining on broken-up audio, on more then 50 Watt HF. First we thought of RFI coming back to the mic, but that was not the case, because it happend on more antennas.
Now i have the transceiver here, in mij workshop. I found out that on his power cord, he had 2 banana plugs, one cheep one, and a good one. The cheep was very loose in the socket, and was not cooping with the power, so there was a powerdrop of more than 3 volt. I changed the banana plug and the transceiver is working fine now.
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What i found was that the ALC meter never exceeded above the? max limit, even with compressor on. Is that normal on a 847?
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Greetings from Erik Rothuis (PA2ER), Terborg Netherlands.
