Day: August 31, 2013

These things sure don’t like high SWR, as smoke came out of mine once!

I finally realised I was transmitting on 28MHz into my 50MHz yagi… Ooops!!!

Anyway… R23 crapped itself… big time. Went open circuit.
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The FT-50R will drain it’s battery rather quickly, even if the transceiver is turned “off”.

This mod will reduce the “off” current drain of the transceiver.

Note: Actual layout of PBA may vary depending on revision.
 
Abbreviated procedure;

• Remove