All I can tell you is I was doing the P to P and it was 3:45 AM, and I went to get the paper,and just shut every thing down. And yes, I had my a Icom IC-R71A communication receiver out and set at 27,185 mhz, and I was able to hear myself, but no movement on the watt meter. My frequency counter quit on me yesterday, I have one of those 10 dollar ones from Amazon, I can set it using my Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator,I can trust that it is calibrated as it (Rigol) us a trusted name brand.
I have a new Freak Counter ,costed me around $400.00, I said screw it,get one that does everything, but don't fix the radio for you. All that I did, getting receive dialed in, then was going to do TX,after I made sure receive was on the money,and made sure we had our 10.240, checked TP 3, had out 16+ MHz,a few off on the 27MHz,we were at 24MHz,went to get it close with L16 I believe, as then shut it off. The next day,I don't remember what day, the radio said nothing to me when I powered it on,so I freaked out. Did not have my 10.240,and no 16MHz also. I had my 5 volts to the 10.240 crystal, but 0 volts to the 16.695 crystal.
This is where I am at,and yesterday I replaces about 3 diodes, just because they were in the same circuit as the 16 crystal. I think I am done helping the wife, so I am going to block that circuit in, and buzz it, and I should be getting my crystals, just in case. Any ideas, I will check some diodes,see if the freq is back, and trace the circuit. Talk soon Mark,,Did you want to talk to the other Mark, my Clone?
