[BC] RA-=1000

[KC4QLP@aol.com]

Dave,

What's with the tar in the bottom?  Did it spew out of mica capacitors (the
G series) or transformers and chokes?  Curious here.

Gary, K?CX



Yep having kept an RA-1000 on the air for many years in eastern NC, I too 
discovered that when too much of the goop seeped out of the transformers, often 
you could expect some failures in the years to come. Often a transformer would 
have the tendency to open or short in the years to come.

Never had much trouble with the tuning motors if you'd "exercise" them every 
so often. It would seem that if everything sat in place for a while, the 
motors would not move as easily.

Now that transmitter that I kept going for so long was replace by a solid 
state rig and was disassembled and moved last summer. That RA-1000 now "lives" in 
a ham shack in VT [ 5 hour drive east of me ]...to be used on the 160 meter 
ham band.

  Bob Carter - KC4QLP
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