Problems With My Rig
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Matthew Millar (With Poetic License)
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Ok, here's the problem...It all started yesterday when my buddy accidentally spilled his full can of beer onto my Kenwood TS-2000. I pulled the cover off knowing good and well I could fix it without any difficulties whatsoever.
I fetched my toolkit and got the rig up on the bench.
After turning all 6 knobs and pushing every button on the board twice (like the real tech's do) it still wouldn't work.
So then, I got out "Big Bertha", (my Titanium hammer), and started hammering away.
Well, after beating on the Board for an hour, I noticed the LCD display power up and show 99.999.999.9 LSB USB CW FM KHZ MHZ. WOW! Now I'm in Business -- I'm getting somewhere.
Since the display was different from the one I see when I power up the rig, I figured that a few more smacks with the hammer would do the trick. Boy, I was Wrong -- Smoke Started coming out of the back end.
So I got some water and put out the fire. And here I am, my radio is Broken, Raped, Melted and Dented. Where did I go wrong? The forum I read said that this would do the trick, yet still it's not functioning at 100%. At least I can sell it for the purchase price on eBay.
Anyone have any tips?
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by WV2NY on June 3, 2004
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Were you wearing your chicken feather headdress and chanting Boom Shawbie Oosh while you were working on it, if not, then there's your problem.
I think MFJ sells the headdress' if you need one.
73 JOE WV2NY
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by KF7CG on June 3, 2004
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Titanium hammer! That's the problem. Don't you know that that rig requires a special platinum tipped rhodium inlayed hammer to properly enegize the RF framis without damaging the power dohickeys.
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by KG4RUL on June 3, 2004
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And the point of this outpouring of drivel is??????
Dennis / KG4RUL
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by KA4KOE on June 3, 2004
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If it was American beer, there's your problem. Should've been quaffing down Guiness from merry (that's why) ole' England.
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by KA4KOE on June 3, 2004
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RUL:
And the point, dear lad, is HUMOR. You know, funnies, rib ticklers, mild gigglers. You do laugh, right?
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by K0EWS on June 3, 2004
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KA4KOE, Guiness is from IRELAND!!!! Not that it matters to me, but it might to the average Irish person ;) Good beer however, and some of the funniest commercials right around St. Patrick's Day. 73
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by NF2L on June 3, 2004
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Well that was a start but did you also use the GOLDEN SCREWDRIVER with the hammer????? You can use the one without the other. Don't forget youy F+ certification also.
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by KZ1X on June 3, 2004
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This is hilarious! You bought that Kenwood with such a lousy receiver, after the ARRL review panned it! Funny! Then instead of collecting the insurance money, you tried to repair it like it was a Yaesu, pushing buttons that don't do anything. I laughed so hard, I spilled my beer!
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by KC8VWM on June 3, 2004
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>>> It all started yesterday when my buddy accidentally spilled his full can of beer onto my Kenwood TS-2000. <<<
What a waste of a perfectly good can of beer.
:)
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by K5DVW on June 3, 2004
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Did you try hooking up to the power supply backwards and jacking up the voltage to 30VDC? The reversal of electrons has been known to repel spilt beer and make everything "mo better".
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by WTF52 on June 3, 2004
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To KA4KOE,
Guinness beer (actually 'Stout') is brewed in Dublin, Ireland, not England.
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by WD8WV on June 3, 2004
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Did you try pouring the beer back in the can and then try listening to the can? You know Coke or Dr. Pepper has a talking can that tells you that you have won.
You might want to drink a few more beers and make an antenna out of the empties. The rig might work then when hooked up the can-tenna.
Really made me chuckle. Good article.
73
Juddie WD8WV
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by K8AG on June 3, 2004
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Sell it on Ebay. Its probably still a 9+. You can't, however, say non-smoker because the radio does.
73
JP, K8AG
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by LNXAUTHOR on June 3, 2004
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- hee! hee!
- well, at least we now know that article submissions aren't moderated?
:-)
- but i get the point... for example, take a look at the Yaesu VX2r - repairs aren't an issue!
- if something goes wrong just replace the entire HT!
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by W3JJH on June 3, 2004
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You shouldn't have used the titanium hammer. Don't you remember that the way radio works is described by Maxwell's Equations? Maxwell's Hammer is silver.
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by WILLY on June 3, 2004
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by WD8WV on June 3, 2004
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You might want to drink a few more beers and make an antenna out of the empties. The rig might work then when hooked up the can-tenna. "
Don't tell him that! He might be drinking those oversized Foster's. With them, in a tube configuration, wouldn't he then be making a Bazooka?
Then again, you may have somewhat of a point. A Can-tenna is a 'dummy' load, isn't it?
>g<
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by KA4KOE on June 3, 2004
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DED #1 is Maxwell.
My question is what's the little metal thingy at the bottom of a bottle of Guiness when they don't have (CURSES) it on draft?
OK, then Guiness comes from wherever. I just likes it. I'm too occupied with consumption to be reading the label.
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by N4ZOU on June 3, 2004
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I did buy a Heathkit SB-1000 amplifier that had a cup of coffee dumped on top of it. The coffee ran down the back and the side where the warm air exits the side of the case. The coffee got on the inside of the rear panel where all the jacks are and screwed them up. You see, the amplifier still "worked" fine for a few months after the coffee had been poured into it. No one bothered to open it up and clean the club coffee out of it. After it quit and was opened up and the inside of the amplifier looking very poor and all the parts on the back panel needing to be replaced and also the tube socket where it mounts to the bottom panel was also be in terrible condition the club just put it up for sale. I bought it cheap. It took several months to disassemble the amplifier, clean and paint, and then reassemble it. The case metal even after cleaning had pits from the sugar in the coffee acting like acid. It would never look good again so I used some automotive filler used for small pits and then used flat black heat paint to cover up the damage. It actually looks good and soaks up some of the heat from the tube. It turned out to be a big project but I knew that when I started! It was much harder to fix it than if I had bought it as a kit and built it myself.
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by K0AMZ on June 3, 2004
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You could try a bottle of Sake on it, then maybe it will reach JA land.
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by N4HRA on June 3, 2004
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The beer washed out all the RF electron. you need to contact Kenwood and order a replacement can of RF electron and pour it in the top, Be careful not to spill any on the desk, if you do then you will have real problems
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by W5HTW on June 3, 2004
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Talking Coke cans? I didn't know that. I wondered why my (blonde) wife was yelling into all the empty Coke cans around the house. I thought she was trying to raise an echo. But then there is already an echo between her ears, so that couldn't be it.
I guess, with today's standard of education (let's see if I can hijack this thread!) we need talking Coke Cans since people can't read the label. "Hi! I'm Mr. Coke! I'm Sweet. And hell no, you didn't win, idiot."
Different world out there. I'm stuck on Tecate. And it doesn't talk. (I think it purrs, though.)
I recall the days when one of the broadcast stations in our group bought a brand stinkin' new, latest be-bop, whatchamacalljazz control console for the studio, spending four and a half goo-gobs of bucks on it, and spent the day installing it in the main studio. That night the evening DJ dude spilled Coke into it. Poof! Instant truck driver.
"I done been playing that thar music for all you truckers, and now I IS one!"
Personally I use a rubber mallet. That's for malleting ...
Back to the Tecate
ed
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by M0AFJ on June 3, 2004
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Well if you were to use Bud to clean the rig it may be OK, its like distilled water!, and Guinness definatley comes from Ireland, we drink Bitter over here...warm...excellent!.
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by AD7DB on June 3, 2004
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Here's what you did wrong. You were supposed to do it only from the north side of the radio, during the dark of the moon. It is not only not the dark of the moon right now, but there's a transit of Venus coming up next week. All of this combined to screw it up.
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by WB2WIK on June 3, 2004
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You could truthfully say, "Worked fine last time I used it," just like the other stuff on eBay.
I had a Wilson (brand) 2 meter handie-talkie back in about 1973 (anyone remember those?) that finally became so broken that I put it out of its misery with a much larger hammer than the Kenwood accessory you described. I used a 16-pound sledge with about a three foot long handle.
It was extremely satisfying to find that only one swat flattened the Wilson to about one twentieth of its previous height dimension.
Of course that was *before* I owned a trash compactor, which would do the job with far less effort.
WB2WIK/6
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by N3JBH on June 3, 2004
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Bang Bang maxwell's siliver hammer came down on his rig.
This is just to good :)
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by KX5FUZ on June 3, 2004
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KA4KOE -
"My question is what's the little metal thingy at the bottom of a bottle of Guiness when they don't have (CURSES) it on draft?"
It's a "rocket widget." Makes it taste like draft. More here - http://www.briansbelly.com/beerbelly/guinness.shtml.
Maybe you should switch to Shiner... www.shiner.com.
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by NA6DF on June 3, 2004
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DUDE!, no, I mean, *DUDE*!!!
Guiness is from IRELAND. Get it straight!
df
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by AB2RC on June 3, 2004
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"Guiness is from IRELAND"
Not only is it from Ireland, it is Guinness, not Guiness
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by AB2RC on June 3, 2004
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"My question is what's the little metal thingy at the bottom of a bottle of Guiness when they don't have (CURSES) it on draft? "
Guinness refers to it as a "widget". It is a small plastic ball (in the cans, don't know about the bottles) with a pinhole in it. after the cans are filled , and before they are sealed a small amount of liquid nitrogen is squirted into the container. When sealed the nitrogen forces it's way into the widget, to be released when the container is opened.
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by K5DVW on June 3, 2004
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Mmmmm Shiner Beer.
Too bad it's not available in the Midwest.
(Former Texas Aggie here)
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by KC8FRJ on June 3, 2004
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" Does this guy come from Texas?."
Nope, Massachusetts.
Dumber than Dubya!
Is this thing on?
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by N8MMZ on June 3, 2004
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I think the problem is that you have not applied enough voltage (They commonly use HV to pull a heart out of cardiac arrest or to "restart" a stopped heart - ergo, should work for radios?).
Go to your local surplus store and obtain a used neo sign transformer. Solder the output leads of the neon sign transformer to the output leads of your rig's transformer (or after the rectifier stage if you prefer). Take the transformer and rig outside and turn off the circuit breaker serving the outside 120V receptacle. Turn on the power knob of the rig and set all of the other knobs to the 2:15 o'clock position. Make sure that you place the rig within view of a window.
Go inside to a point where you can observe the breath of life being breathed back into your rig. Have an assistant throw the breaker serving the outdoor receptacle. You should either observe the rig returning to a working state, or the rest of the magic smoke being liberated.
In any event, if you were unsuccessful at getting the rig sparked back to life, you have sent the spirit of the radio back to the ether from whence it came.
I wish you luck in this endeavour.
Cheers' 73s de N8MMZ
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by N7UQA on June 3, 2004
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You should file this one under /dev/radio/null. And then cd /pub/more/beer.
Craig - N7UQA
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by VE3WGO on June 3, 2004
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Everybody knows that one beer per day isn't enough for maximum personal health on long life. Let's assume the same applies to ham radios. So try spilling another beer on the rig, and see what happens...
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by WA9SVD on June 3, 2004
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COngratulate your friend on the acquisition of his new TS-2000, and ask that he have YOUR new radio delivered Overnight Express.
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by K1MVP on June 3, 2004
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I just had an idea,
You might want to donate the tranceiver to the ARRL,
es they could use it as a an "on job training" tool
for the new no code licensees.
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by KA4KOE on June 3, 2004
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DUDE!, no, I mean, *DUDE*!!!
Guiness is from IRELAND. Get it straight!
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"Guiness is from IRELAND"
Not only is it from Ireland, it is Guinness, not Guiness"
You two need to seriously cut me some slack. Enough that American beer tastes like cow p*** to me. I'd gladly raise a pint with either of you in Savannah's Irish Pub and lament the fate of said dead TS-2000, sans its magic smoke.
HICCUP
PAN
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by WB4QNG on June 3, 2004
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So that is what is wrong with that Kenwood I bought on E_BAY
Terry
WB4QNG
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by K1OU on June 3, 2004
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KA4KOE,
An Irish pub in Georgia. That cracks me up. Ya'll up ferwunnademginisssses? Mebbe a beefittyteww?
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by KB9ERU on June 3, 2004
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You need to use a bigger hammer on the more expensive radios. They don't smash as well as the cheaper ones.
Sorry to hear about the tragic passing of the beer.
My condolences to the other cans it left behind.
Mick KB9ERU
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by N3PF on June 3, 2004
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Oppps...You should have not used a hammer first...You should have dried it out with a Millwalkee heat gun set to the Highest setting....and get all that Bad Beer...out of the radio quick...get all the goesonta's and goesinta's cherry red...IC's like that...and so do surface mounts...(I think that this will increase the out put of the rig...)it will be pre heated...( I hope that your buddy was not drinking YOUR BEER...)But if all else fails you can always take your KENMORE back to SEARS ...I think that they have a lifetime warenty....on their products...and remember I only drink when I am alone or with someone...or day's that end with "y"
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by KA4KOE on June 3, 2004
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K1OU:
Yep. Savannah has a very large Irish decended population AND the second largest St Paddy's Day Parade in the country, next to NYC. So yes, a traditional Irish pub here is not inconceivable.
Come down next March 17 and see for yourself. The fountains in the historic squares turn green the whole week prior. Its nice.
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by KA4KOE on June 3, 2004
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BTW Jerry, your picture is green. Either you're Irish, the aliens are coming for you, or you drank something other than Guinness.
Go try and fix a TS2000. The solder smoke will wake you up!!!!
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by WB2GOF on June 3, 2004
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You should stop drinking around your rig. Try smoking dope, if you need a good buzz. Besides, pot ash does less damage to a rig when spilled....
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by KC8VWM on June 3, 2004
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I have often burned soldering resin around my rig,
...but I never inhaled.
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by K1OU on June 3, 2004
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Phil,
I'm actually a fan of Blue Moon and Harp. Very interesting about Irish in the garden of good and evil. And the green is the glare from George Clinton's mothership coming to get me sprung.
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by K0EWS on June 3, 2004
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KA4KOE~
I'll drink one with you any time; I don't care where the bar is, nor where the beer is from....you seem like a pretty funny guy for the most part. First round's on me!
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by K1IR on June 4, 2004
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Approving this as an "Article" reflects poorly on the eHam staff.
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by KA4KOE on June 4, 2004
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I think it says the Mike, N2MG, has a sense of humor and doesn't take life too seriously.
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by K0RFD on June 4, 2004
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WV2NY Wrote:
>I think MFJ sells the headdress' if you need one.
Yes, but you'll have to re-sew all the feathers before you put it on.
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by KB3KAQ on June 4, 2004
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Guiness imported into America is brewed in Canada, as is Heineken.
As for the rig, just one more reason to buy a new Icom. they have the new beer repelling flux capacitors with the linear tuned reverse polarized parabolic lithium ion vapor shilds.
i'll have another, hic.
steve
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by N4KRA on June 4, 2004
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After reading all the replies and original article, I have come to the conclusion that all of us Amateur (read HAM) operators are certifiably "NUTZ". Enjoyed the comments. Made a miserable day much more brighter..Tnx. Tom
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by KD5JFT on June 4, 2004
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Enjoyable reading. This is why I don't drink intoxication beverages near my radio. I just smoke dope, the smoke gets into the parts and adds it's magic to the smoke already encased in the components. The only problem with my method is. . .I keep forgetting.
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by KB3JJY on June 4, 2004
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Hmmm,
seems like the rig needs to be cleaned or better yet you need to get a new rig and give me the one with beer spilt in it. ic-7800 anyone?
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by WB9NJB on June 4, 2004
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Guiness was sold to the Brits a year or so ago. Still brewed in Dublin though. The only remaining Irish stout left is Murphy's Irish Stout (unless there are local brews that they do not export).
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by N2JHZ on June 4, 2004
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"Anyone have any tips?"
I know of some mutants who can repair virtually anything. More details about them are available at the URL http://home.nyc.rr.com/lengyel, under the entries referring to mutants.
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by KE4ZHN on June 4, 2004
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Take the rig out to an open field somewhere. Pack about 3 pounds of C4 around it...attach blasting cap and remote detonator...one click of the detonator button...will fix ANYTHING wrong with that radio...forever! PS careful of flying shrapnel, you may find the pieces up to 2 miles away. Ok...time for the legal disclaimer here....Kids...DONT try this at home! Use of explosives such as C4 is illegal and very dangerous...just in case someone reading this is nuts enough to take this post seriously. :-p
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by N0RKX on June 4, 2004
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Take the top and bottom covers off and run it through the dishwasher a couple of times using the pot scrubing cycle.
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by W3JJH on June 4, 2004
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Perhaps Worf's Law applies in this situation:
There is no problem in the Universe than cannot be solved by the appropriate application of sustained phaser fire.
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by WD5KCA on June 4, 2004
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"Mmmmm Shiner Beer.
Too bad it's not available in the Midwest."
As soon as I saw that I knew you must be an Aggie. :)
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by EXPAT on June 5, 2004
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Guiness is owned by the hated limey! And why bother with that swill when CZECH beer is the world´s greatest! Gotta be some advantage to living here on 300 a month....
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by K4JSR on June 5, 2004
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JHZ, we have been cursed in Georgia with Fire Ants for
some time now. Just what the heck are Mutt Ants? :-P
73 Cal K4JSR
PS. Of course MG has a perverse sense of humor. How else could he stand us?
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by K8DXX on June 5, 2004
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KC8VWM,
That's exactly what I was thinking. Of course, if it was the typical/highly advertised American beer, little waste occured. Now, had it been Molson Ice, that would have been a tragedy!
We need more frivolity like this (the original) post!
Bottoms up!
K8DXX
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by KE4KVW on June 5, 2004
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"PROBLEM SOLVED":I noticed the PROBLEM right away with the rig!It's a "CORNWOOD" (KENWOOD)TS-2000 and here we are halfway through 2004.I think CORNWOOD might want to buy it back if it "REALLY" did last this long! Give them first option for a BUY BACK since they will want to tear EVERY single piece from it and find out who is at fault for it making it this long and put them in the unemployment line.You should THANK your beer drinking friend for his assistance in this matter! Now you get a SECOND chance too KICKEM with an ICKEM(ICOM)756 PROII. "REAL" radio gear for a MAN! hehe Congrats on that piece of junk biting the dust!ClaytonKE4KVW
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by KF4VCJ on June 5, 2004
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you can always install a dynascan board and echo mike then when you spill berr it auto tunes you to 11 meters
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by KC8VWM on June 6, 2004
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K8DXX,
Beer is a terrible thing to waste. Besides, with the price of gasoline going up we need to protect our natural resources.
BTW, You have a great shack photo in your user profile.
73
Charles - KC8VWM
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by KM5WV on June 6, 2004
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In reading your comments, I have the solution to getting your TS-2000 up and running again.
First, all electronic devices such as the TS-2000 require smoke to operate. You let the smoke out, typically they will not operate, or at least operate properly. Several pieces of equipment you will need for repair will be an air compressor that operates either by DC voltage or possibly 208-230 volt 3 phase. Standard 110 household power will not work correctly as the motor on the compressor will need to be reversed in direction, a large BBQ Pit, Funnel, Garden Hose, Serial connector w/ garden hose adapter, and assorted hand tools.
Fire up the BBQ pit (being from Texas, pecan or mesquite wood is best suited). Using a large funnel over the "smoke discharge" of the BBQ pit connected by a hose to the intake of the air compressor, turn on the compressor and build the air tank pressure to at least 80# per Sq. In. Next, (be sure to disconnect compressor from power first) reverse the polarity of the electrical connections, this is to make the compressor run in reverse. Connect the discharge of the compressor now to the Data input pins on the serial connector (located on the back) of the TS-2000. While pushing the ON, MENU and TUNE (note, this only applies to the TS-2000 equiped with an auto tuner) start up the compressor and recharge the smoke into the radio until there is less than 10# per Sq. In. remaining in the air tank.
Good luck, I would think that cooking a ribeye on the BBQ grill during this process will increase the possiblilties of success.
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by K6TLA on June 6, 2004
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The original poster must be a former cb'er. I wonder why he didn't try using his golden screwdriver to fix the problem?
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by AH6RR on June 6, 2004
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news But! You forgot the most inportant step. The only way to get beer out of the radio is to soak it in SALT Water for 2 weeks while playing Frank Zazppa's Kosmic Debris. Then you hook it up to a (Here it comes the sure fire fix) FAN DIPOLE. And if that does not work Sell it on E-bay I'll bid on it.
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by K1CJS on June 6, 2004
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From 'way earlier:
""Does this guy come from Texas?." Nope, Massachusetts. Dumber than Dubya!"
Come on, nothing could be that dumb!
_____________
Now everyone, for the correct solution--wash out the beer with fresh water then pour black COFFEE into it--black now, no cream or sugar. Everyone should know that that will wake most things up. BTW, brewed coffee will certainly work while instant has less than an even chance of working!
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by KA4KOE on June 6, 2004
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Congrats. Great way to kill the fun of the thread is to inject your own personal non-sequiter views on politics, sex, or religion.
...the horror of it all.
I think I'll have another Guinness.
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by WA3JGI on June 6, 2004
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well you could have fixed it with the first adjustment but you weren't wearing you ruby slippers saying there's no place like DAYTON , there's no place like DAYTON HI HI WA3JGI
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by KC8AQH on June 7, 2004
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c4----cool!!! Way better than that old fashioned plastique stuff. Though for this little rig a 10 foot length of det cord rolled into a coil would do just fine.
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by W9SZ on June 7, 2004
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"No, no, no, you don't understand how radio works. All I have to do is get some dry ice and cue the organist..."
Actually, you should've gotten yourself a Wouff Hong, a Rettysnitch and an Uggerumph. Use the Wouff Hong on the buddy who spilled the beer on the rig and then use the Rettysnitch and Uggerumph to repair the radio. It would've worked fine.
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by KA4KOE on June 8, 2004
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You have to reverse the ionization quotient of the transmorgrifying fluxion charger via inverse phasing.
That works every time for problems of the type you describe. If you need to borrow my inverse phasor/charger to do this repair, let me know. Its a new product from Fluke.
Good luck.
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by WA2JJH on June 8, 2004
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I prefer to use a #10 BFH(BIG F__King Hammer)
The BFH is also mil. spec
I see that you were able to get some of the TS-2000
working. The BFH with some acetone will allow you to
adjust the stange shape case of the ts-2000.
You should be able to get the case square.
When I was a kid, I fixed countless of B&W TV's by smacking then around. The fix was tempory, but it felt good to beat up a TV
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by KA4KOE on June 8, 2004
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Rats. Just broke my inverse phasor/charger from Fluke. Drew a 36" hot blue-white arc off the thing when I forget to set it to "TEST". Had it on "SLICE AND DICE" instead.
Tell you what, quite an electrical display going on in here. Looked like something out of an old Frankenstein movie. Now if I can only get my hair to lay down flat.
Rats, nasty stain on the carpet, too. I'll leave the explanation of what THAT is to your imagination.
So, loaning it is a no-go for fixing your TS-2000. I recommend you go out and get yourself an Alinco, the Fisher Price of radios.
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by K4JSR on June 9, 2004
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The best way for a permanent fix of the offending
transceiver would be to launch the offending equipment over Sea Island, Georgia while screaming,
"Incoming from the Middle East!".
The black helicopter and ham sandwich
conspiracy will take care of it, FOREVER!
Sometimes folks forget the really low tech approach
to things. I guess we all get tangled up in the
"Law of Perversity of Inanimate Objects" and let
ourselves become whelmed in egregious turpitude and
hyperbole. OH, THE HUMANITY OF IT ALL!
Why are we so profligate in this? Have we all become
sinecures within our own self gratification?
Everyone of you needs to take this mild purgation to heart before you assume the shape of a hexahedron.
OK, N2MG, that should keep you busy for a while!
How about a round of White Castle Burgers with some
Mr. Potato Head fries for everyone!
73 Cal K4JSR
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by KA4KOE on June 10, 2004
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I think so much of this discussion I'm replying from Atlanta in the Omni Center....departed due to G8 and cowardice.
boy this keyboard at the Viewsonic pavilion is small.
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by K4JSR on June 10, 2004
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PAN,
Have another serving of Omni Grits. You think that keyboard is hard to see now, let me loan you my tri-focals! ;-P
Besides, who said you are a coward? Who would want to be in the same area with Black Jacque Chirac?
I hope he got a good serving of "Freedom Fries"! :-D
(It's OK folks. French Fries ain't really French!)
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by KA4KOE on June 10, 2004
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Cal, we're in room 2178, I don't remember your email address. Send me your email via my regular email address.
WHen can we see you tomorrow?
PHILIP
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by ZR1PJA on June 11, 2004
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Here in South Africa we use Brandy and Coke to clean our rigs. inside and outside. north of the border we use Gin and Tonic to keep the mosquitos away.
Cheers
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by EXPAT on June 12, 2004
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White Castle AND Czech beer...hell, I must be from New Jersey.
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by KC0NPF on June 12, 2004
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Your problem is that the hammer was too small, jobs like this should require only one stroke. If all else fails, try the high voltage leads from your power amp.. they usually remove the problem (from the room).
KC0NPF
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by KC8VWM on June 14, 2004
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>>> Here in South Africa we use Brandy and Coke to clean our rigs. <<<
They are just so much more "enviromentally friendly" over there in S/A.
... they always seem to be smiling an awful lot too.
??
:)
Charles - KC8VWM
Ohio, USA
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by KA2DDX on July 10, 2004
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This reminds me of a true story left over from my days in the U.S. Navy (circa 1960's). I was stationed on a U.S. Air Force base and was a radio operator. The receivers we used were the Collins R390A's. About every six months, an Air Force electronics technician would do a "preventative maintenance" on all the receivers. Well, one day, they sent around a fella who'd gotten out of electronics school only recently. He came to his first receiver, unplugged it, and opened it up and went thru the list of things he had to do including replacing certain parts that were known to be needing replacing according to schedule. When he finished, he put the cover back on the receiver, plugged it in and powered it on. The receiver came on and worked beautifully, no problems whatsoever. His consternation came about when he looked down on the desk and saw a couple of resistors and capacitors that were supposed to have gone back into the receiver. Somehow, this receiver was working real nice without all it's parts. He was finally convinced to leave well enough alone and go on to his next assignment somewhere else in the building. Us Navy guys just laughed our heads off at the confused look on this poor fella's face. The R390A is probably still working somewhere even this day.
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by K1CJS on July 25, 2004
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You say--""Don't Drink & Ham"", I would think something like "Don't drink and driver" would be more suitable, or would that only be while transmitting?
:-) Sorry, couldn't resistor!
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by WA2JJH on August 3, 2004
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You used the wrong type of hammer.Titanium is for small electronics, like laser diodes.
You should have used a mil. spec B.F.H (BIG f**king Hammer).
My airforce friend would tell me stories about what could be fixed with a B.F.H.
Right tool for the right job!!!!!
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by KG6WLV on February 25, 2006
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Needless to say, you should be using your friend for a "dummy" load! I suggest a long tune up with 1500 Watts PEP.
To address your problem seriously, use the Kenwood Accessory BRM-2000, Beer Removal Tool, designed for the 2000. (Caution: this tool will NOT work with the TS-B2000, which requires the Kenwood BRM-B2000 tool.) Consisting of a long-tubed syringe and a wad of cotton, this will do the job. It's available at HRO and AES for $89.95. DO NOT attempt to homebrew this, as it will void your warranty.
Now you know why the TS-2000 is the only ham rig with a "beer gut"!
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