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WEFAX and SSTV / Re: GYA-Northwood UK 8040 USB (8038.1 USB as received) 2054 UTC 1 Apr 2019
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Very nice.
Congrats to both of you.
Congrats to both of you.
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I did a paper on the Fitz back in 1980 - fascinating saga. I hope EF radio went QRT for the last time at 7pm CST on November 10th. That would have been the ultimate cosmic irony.
QuoteS-Meter is nice and huge with markings that give the standard S-units for most nonprofessional types along with dbm. It has been reported that the lamp in this meter can and does burn out fairly easy and is not a easy chore to replace (direct wired inside the meter). Note: Later production samples now use LED meter lighting (untested).
Source: https://www.qsl.net/n9ewo/rx340.html
RadioReference has a forum for the Chicago metro area. Might be a good place to inquire about a repair tech recommendation.
https://forums.radioreference.com/forums/chicago-metro-area-discussion.174/
A passing contemplation, but being near Chi-town, there's got to be a High School vocational electronics class, or even electronics college curriculum out near you. With the stupid high price of shipping such a receiver, like that Ten Tec, a suggestion would be to go to a principal, or a school Dean, and ask if you could present what you want done by students, and have them get a grade upon doing that project. That's what was done in New York State's BOCES, and later SUNY College, where folks could submit items for repair, students would get graded on the work, and the submitting person would only pay for parts, and not the labor. That's, what I did in High School, then College. And, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper than shipping that Ten Tec. Good luck to you.
Any chance we can get a picture to see what is going on?Sure - can you PM me your email or tell me here how to upload a picture - it’s just the loop head of a Wellbrook and you can barely see that there is the center conductor of the old male BNC fitting broken off in the center - I only figured that out because I couldn’t get another male BNC to slip on and couldn’t see why but now I do. I can fit a needle into the hole in the center of a new female BNC but not the one sticking out of the loop head. Ugh.