Date: 07-05-2025
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Number of Hours: 13.75
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Short Description: Checking out VHF
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Nine sessions since last fall to this summer, and I have finally got the VHF to both receive and transmit. How frustrating... so much trouble shooting, screwing around, internet searches, asking ChatGBT, trying to find some local who could help me. A few wiring changes based on reviewing both the wiring harness connection instructions and the radio manual and schematic, lots of testing for grounding, continuity, etc, and then finally today a guy from the local Ham radio club showed up, God bless him, with some test equipment.
He confirmed with a SWR test and a power output reading that the system should work and when we tried again it did... what the @#$%? He must have sprinkled some magic dust! So, I don't know what was wrong before, but it is all good now. Knock on wood.
Most likely there were a few wiring problems in the past that I gradually fixed. The system was probably actually working before he showed up, but I just didn't know it.
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