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----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: what next? my rig is gone!
> Hi John,
> Man, do I appreciate your email!
> Well, I'll give yall more info!
> Well, yeah, I know, it's a 30 year old rig, I had one in 1981.
> As for the other radio, well, it's a kenwood 480HX, with the vgs1 speech =
> board installed.
> And folks, Ken, at ham radio outlet Delaware is an absolute gem!
> He put the board in for me!
> Anyway, the 120 was on it's 3rd owner.
> Well, as far as swr, there's no way of knowing that. All I can do is, =
> listen for loudest noise, I mean, what other choices do you have? Tuning =
> aids are nonexistent today. Remember the good old tuning aids made by =
> handihams? They don't exist any more, the guy that use to make them, =
> doesn't make those any more. So, quite frankly, for a blind person, all =
> I can do is, listen for loudest noise on receive, and that's what I do, =
> using the mfj 949E antenna tuner.
> The last thing I want to do, folks, is, hook up another rig, hook up the =
> snake antenna, which does get out, by the way, on 2 bands, and blow up =
> another rig.
> The last thing I want to have to do is pay back a loan, on 2 blown up =
> radios.
> It's gonna be December, till I can send this 120 back to Kenwood.
> I've been through alot of hell with trying to get on hf. Can't do =
> contesting on echo link, I can't use the handiham remote base, because I =
> don't even know if it's gonna work with my computer, and I'm not gonna =
> pay a membership fee to find out that it doesn't work.
> So, what would you all do? Would you hook up another radio and take =
> another chance, knowing that that one could blow up too?
> Tell ya what though, I'm not gonna use the snake antenna any more, I'm =
> scared to try using that antenna again, because who knows, maybe that =
> antenna was the problem. I do have the 1 to 1 balun, and a bunch of =
> copper wire that I can use with that balun, and I can use part of it as =
> a counterpoise.
> So, there ya have it.
> Who knows.
> Trippy, who just wants to enjoy his hobby and be on hf, like all of you =
> are, because it's killing me inside to hear the great time that =
> everybody is having, working it, and I was having a good time, myself, =
> till tonight.
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: John Miller=20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 9:19 PM
> Subject: Re: what next? my rig is gone!
>
>
> You have to remember, the TS-120 is better than 30 years discontinued =
> and as=20
> I recall was one of the first with solid state finals. As such, it =
> really=20
> didn't take much to cook the finals. I bought one with just that =
> problem,=20
> the guy I bought it from at the time had 4 of them that way. I am not =
>
> saying that's the case with you, but I will say you're likely alright =
> to run=20
> the other radio. You have no idea what that TS-120 has been through, =
> where=20
> it's been, if you had a perfect SWR, see that radio didn't reduce =
> power for=20
> a mismatch like newer radios did so if you had anything over 1.5, =
> tuning by=20
> sound you likely did have over that, those finals don't take it very =
> long=20
> and the radio doesn't cut back. Newer radios cut back power so you can =
> get=20
> away with that for a little while, not forever, but for a while. I'm =
> not=20
> saying that's what happened to your radio but that was a common thing =
> on=20
> those so I'm guessing it's over 30 years old so anything could have=20
> happened, literally anything.
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Harry Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 9:04 PM
> 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 =3D
> > 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 =3D
> > after dinner QSO!"
> > So, I fired it up, and responded to a station in hungry, who copied =
> me =3D
> > 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 =3D
> > station, and the moment I keyed up the microphone, I heard a poof =
> kind =3D
> > 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 =3D
> > 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 =3D
> > grading kind of thing, just like a speaker feels, and it smells a =
> bit =3D
> > like burn smell.
> > So, I tryed to go back to 2 cqs on 20 cw, and they were loud, and =
> nobody =3D
> > 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 =
> =3D
> > have anything to do with me, as I told Bob, k8lr, on the phone, =
> weeks =3D
> > ago, when we talked about my antenna situation.
> > Now I have another rig and power supply, but folks I am scared to =
> death =3D
> > 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 =3D
> > 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 =3D
> > up on any rig, at all.
> > take care,
> > 73,
> > Trippy, who just wants to have my hobby back and enjoy it, and I =
> mean, =3D
> > really enjoy it
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