PA1JIM » TS-850 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 Good HAM deal http://www.pa1jim.nl/2009/09/good-ham-deal/ http://www.pa1jim.nl/2009/09/good-ham-deal/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:54:11 +0000 PA1JIM http://www.pa1jim.nl/?p=408 Continue reading →]]> Kenwood TCXO-SO2When I posted the message last month that I bought my Kenwood TS-850, I’ve got a mail from Joerg, DL6IB from Germany.
Joerg did offer me something nice. He bought 2 pieces of the Kenwood TCXO-SO2 in the USA. The first one he had used to build in his own Kenwood TS-870 and the second one he did offer me for a good price. You know I’m a sucker for
accessories. I already did manage to find a voice synthesizer (VS-2), a digital recording unit (DRU-2) and several filters for my precious TS-850 . The only thing that was missing was the temperature compensated cristal oscillator (TCXO-SO2). So it was a very good timing of Joerg to contact me!
But I find it always a little bit scary to just send money over the internet and hope the other end will deliver what he promised.
But yesterday the package arrived and there was my “little bug”. Maybe I’ll mount it this weekend. Then my TS-850 is fully loaded and even more capable of operating so nicely, the way I want it.

Thank you Joerg! Thanks for the offer and it was great doing business with you! Hope to hear you on the bands sometime.

]]> http://www.pa1jim.nl/2009/09/good-ham-deal/feed/ 3 TS-850 CAR-board restoration http://www.pa1jim.nl/2009/08/ts-850-car-board-restoration/ http://www.pa1jim.nl/2009/08/ts-850-car-board-restoration/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:44:34 +0000 PA1JIM http://www.pa1jim.nl/?p=379 Continue reading →]]> Yesterday I’ve swapped the capacitors of my TS-850 CAR-board. It was not a very difficult job, but men, what are those smd-parts tiny! I have to get another iron for this little stuff.

Anyway, the leaking capacitors are replaced. No damage to the circuit board underneath the capacitors was discovered. Only the green layer was damaged around the capacitors. I’ve scraped everything clean and then cleaned it with some alcohol. Next I put down some transparant nail varnish to protect the clean board. After reconnect it in the rig, it turn out to work fine! So job done I guess!

After I took the picture, I’ve swapped the 47 µF/16V one for a normal (not smd) version of 25V. There was enough room for it, so why bother to get the smd-version. Hopefully no leakage on my CAR-board anymore!
Capacitor swap CAR-board TS-850

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