Well gosh Harry, guess you must have gotten Snake Bit! Jim
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From: Harry Brown <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:04:09 -0400
Subject: what next? my rig is gone!
Hi all,
Well folks, how do I begin this?
As you all know, I bought a used kenwood 120, and it was working
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absolutely great!
I was using the snake antenna, and it was great on 20, and 15
meters!
So, after dinner, I said, "well Trippy, fire that rig up and have
a nice =
after dinner QSO!"
So, I fired it up, and responded to a station in hungry, who
copied me =
just fine.
Then, here's where all heck broke loose.
I then, went up to the phone band, and, I responded to a cq
there, a km4 =
station, and the moment I keyed up the microphone, I heard a poof
kind =
of noise, and the rig shut off. So, I shut off the power supply.
Then, I thought, "well, let's turn it back on and see what
happens."
So, I turned the power supply back on, no problem with that, and
then, I =
turned the rig on, and it receives fine.
However, to the left of those 3 knobs on the top of the rig,
there is a =
grading kind of thing, just like a speaker feels, and it smells a
bit =
like burn smell.
So, I tryed to go back to 2 cqs on 20 cw, and they were loud, and
nobody =
heard me.
Folks, I don't know what to do from here.
The hams in this town are clickish, and don't talk to me, or want
to =
have anything to do with me, as I told Bob, k8lr, on the phone,
weeks =
ago, when we talked about my antenna situation.
Now I have another rig and power supply, but folks I am scared to
death =
to hook it up.
The last thing I need, is to lose another rig!
Anyone have an idea what I could be dealing with?
All I know is, my audio was so good before tonight, and now it's
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horrible, absolutely aweful.
I just wonder if I blew something!
It's just so depressing!
Everytime I try to get on hf, it's like, it's not ment to be.
I'm at a complete loss, just totally lost, right now!
I've never had this problem in 35 years of hamming. Never blew
anything =
up on any rig, at all.
take care,
73,
Trippy, who just wants to have my hobby back and enjoy it, and I
mean, =
really enjoy it
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