Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
So far, all the cases of a "loose" headphone washer that I've seen were
because the front panel pc board wasn't completely seated in the front panel
sheet metal. Rather, one edge of the microphone connector is binding in the
hole in the sheet metal, keeping the board from fitting all the way against
the panel. The Front Panel pc board will flex quite easily when the screws
are tightened and it doesn't take to cause the washer on the nearby PHONES
jack to be loose. Figure 37 shows exactly how the microphone connector
should appear when it's properly seated. The text at the top of page 29
describes how to seat it properly if it is binding.
This is *exactly* what happened to me. The mic connector shoulder was
originally seated correctly. Later on, I had to take a couple of screws
out because while reviewing recent steps, I realized I'd used the wrong
washers. Apparently that was when the board hung up on the shoulder of
the mic connector. I didn't realize it until it was time to do the
final FP assembly. Once I backed up and got it right, all the holes
lined up perfectly.
Regarding the assembly manual: I made two notes as I worked with the
intention of pointing them out to Ron. When I got around to it and
re-read the instruction, it turned out the problems were a technical
difficulty in my mind.
FWIW: While doing the initial 10W SSB adjustments, I was into the dummy
load on 14294. I began to get ERR TXF messages and it wouldn't transmit
when I tapped XMIT. Thanks to W0YK, I finally figured out that I had
put it into AM mode, probably while messing around with TEST mode. Not
sure what it was telling me, but it's working fine now.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2008 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 08
- www.cqp.org
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