{"id":3147,"date":"2012-11-20T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T23:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2012-11-20T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T23:17:15","slug":"more-on-ncx-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3147","title":{"rendered":"More on NCX-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: Limerock Road – 4+ miles]<\/p>\n

We had a good strong run this morning.\u00a0 And I can feel it this afternoon. It’s just after 5 and I’m thinking I would like a hot bath then go to bed.<\/p>\n

Anyway,\u00a0 Since I’m thinking about getting rid of this NCX-5 transceiver I decided to fix it up a bit.\u00a0 I know that doesn’t make a lot of sense but my mind works that way.<\/p>\n

I had done a couple of modifications to it long ago.\u00a0 One was to add a three-legged voltage regulator to the VFO circuit instead of a zener diode.\u00a0 I don’t know why I was thinking that a 12-volt regulator would be a good replacement for a 6 volt zener.\u00a0 It did work.\u00a0 But I have now taken that mod out.<\/p>\n

I had replaced the filter capacitors in the separate power supply at the very beginning.\u00a0 And I had replaced a couple of on-board electrolytics in the early days of my acquisition.\u00a0 But they were hanging down below the chassis and the wiring was a mess.\u00a0 So this morning I fired up the big soldering iron and got the failed multi-section twist-lock cap off out of there.\u00a0 I hope to restuff it with some working caps and get it put back on.<\/p>\n

I may have to do some VFO alignment after all of that.\u00a0 Then we will see if it is worth keeping or if I’ll take it to the hamfest in January.<\/p>\n

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