Arnie posted this on QRP-L. I thought it was a pretty ingenious way to work around
an unavailable part. FB Arnie!<\/p>\n
My TS820 non QRP, but capable of <\/span>QRP operation<\/span> transceiver. …<\/span> has a similar type of female 9 pin socket to connect or not connect<\/span> the external VFO.<\/span> I needed a plug when not using the external VFO, and it was made<\/span> using a Russian 6H2P dual triode that had a bad filament…<\/span> I very carefully broke down the glass using nichrome wire at red hot<\/span> temperature and then a <\/span>thermal shock<\/span>.<\/span> The glass bulb broke nicely in a rounded even circle !!!<\/span> Then I proceeded to remove the soldered connections to the two triodes…<\/span> removed them , and soldered the wires required for the jumpers as<\/span> specified by TS 820 manual…<\/span> After checking that all was OK, then I poured Araldite epoxy to fill<\/span> the glass …<\/span> It worked very well, and the only cost was the small amount of valuable<\/span> epoxy ( not easy to find locally, and extremely useful for repair jobs<\/span> and pasting the islands of the Manhattan style homebrew <\/span> printed-nonprinted circuits !!!<\/span> 73 and DX<\/span> Arnie Coro<\/span> CO2KK<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arnie posted this on QRP-L. I thought it was a pretty ingenious way to work aroundan unavailable part. FB Arnie! My TS820 non QRP, but capable of QRP operation transceiver. … has a similar type of female 9 pin socket to connect or not connect the external VFO. I needed a plug when not using … Continue reading “Cool Cuban Hack”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}