{"id":5229,"date":"2009-01-24T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/my-frequency-counter-fixed\/"},"modified":"2009-01-24T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T07:32:00","slug":"my-frequency-counter-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/my-frequency-counter-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"My Frequency Counter.  FIXED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned my broken frequency counter&#8230; Tony Fishpool, G4WIF, of G-QRP sent me a replacement CMOS chip. The counter is now counting beautifully. It was a real chore to get the bad chip off the double-sided board, then I doubled my work by putting Tony&#8217;s chip in upside down. It doesn&#8217;t work very well that way. I did another chip extraction. By this time I had all kinds of lifted pads, broken traces, pins on the verge of breaking. I felt sure that all the heating and de-soldering had destroyed the CMOS. But no! It lives!<\/p>\n<p>This was a very satisfying troubleshoot and repair. I feel like Dr. House. The whole thing was made even nicer by the fact that the repair part came from the junkbox of a friend. Thanks Tony!<\/p>\n<p>Looks like the old counter is still well-calibrated. It has my QRSS sig at 10140070. ON5EX&#8217;s grabber puts me at 10140050. So the counter is 20 Hz high. Not bad for flea market junk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned my broken frequency counter&#8230; Tony Fishpool, G4WIF, of G-QRP sent me a replacement CMOS chip. The counter is now counting beautifully. It was a real chore to get the bad chip off the double-sided board, then I doubled my work by putting Tony&#8217;s chip in upside down. It doesn&#8217;t work very well that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/my-frequency-counter-fixed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Frequency Counter.  FIXED!&#8221;<\/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":[174,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frequency-counter","category-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","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=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}