PA1JIM » shortage http://www.pa1jim.nl eNotes & net.presence of Jim Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:30:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Shortage in Yaesu FT-817 http://www.pa1jim.nl/2009/06/shortage-in-yaesu-ft-817/ http://www.pa1jim.nl/2009/06/shortage-in-yaesu-ft-817/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:37:35 +0000 PA1JIM http://www.pa1jim.nl/?p=308 Continue reading →]]> It is a very sad sad day. My first rig, a Yeasu FT-817, is broken.
The other day I wanted to turn it on, but it was dead. Shaking the rig gave me all weird noises, so I opened it. Seems that there was an exploded elco in it. All kind of lose smd pieces around the elco. It look a bit like a mess. Actually it seems that there was some kind of shortage in de power.

So I took the rig to the local repair man. All that smd stuff is a bit too new for me. I hope he will be able to fix it… Let’s cross fingers. I would like to have a working 817 for nostalgic purposes ;-)

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