Bob:
I keep saying ask Bob Nuckolls - or call RSGB for the nearest
interference co-ordinator.
May you be free of this ogre - and soon.
Ferg A064
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob.Harrison <ptag.dev@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 21:53:25 +0100
> Hi! To all those who tendered advice re my ICOM AC 200 Transcom.
> Well today came and went. We went to Wolverhampton to see the "oracle"
> there,
> having disconnected one end of the Mag switches shielding grounds for
which
> there was no improvement.
> He ....... could only bench test the damn thing, in spite of saying bring
> the
> 'plane. He told me what I already knew.... that the set was set up as the
> maintenance manual recommends( which I already knew!)
> Under pressure he decided to put his screw driver in the squelch adjust
hole
> tried a slight adjustment (NOT having noted where it bloody was before he
> started!) and we re-installed it in the a/c. We were getting Wolverhampton
> Radio (who have an Icom Base!) fives at 10 miles and very faintly at 15
> miles. So we though we had improved the thing.
> Got back to Wickenby regularly calling them but only got reception in the
> circuit!
> Just tell me ,Chaps, why isn't it possible to make a slave harness and
plug
> it into the a/c with co-ax extension piece to the a/c antenae to enable
the
> set to be put on the engineers knee whilst in flight to ajust the damn
thing
> as the transmissions
> are recieved or NOT as the case may be?
> Perhaps a mechanical engineers' solution for some reason doesn't apply to
> radios?!
> He also has suggested that all equipment or any structural ground tails
> should be taken direct to the battery.?
> Regards
> Bob Harrison
>
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