Just came across this page.

I was looking for something today and came across this page:

http://www.analog.com/en/analog-to-digital-converters/voltage-to-frequency-converters/products/rarely-asked-questions/RAQ_restaurant/resources/fca.html


It is not that last time i read RAQ's!!

Kædetråd / jewelry wire

The other day i was at a store in Sønderborg called Stoff 2000.

I found Kædetråd / jewelry wire there diameter is 0.8 mm, length is 6m of silver plated wire. I had to buyone of these and test soldered on it yesterday,it solders like a charm.

The product which i bought is called:

Gütermann creativ (Art. 665827)

EAN: 4008015641894

It is made by Gütermann AG

At the price of 19.95 DKK which is less than 4USD is find it a cheap birdnest (Fuglerede in danish) / manhattan / deadbug component.

TS-120S has been fixed (I hope)

After adding SB mods to it, it has become little better though still not usefull.

Then today I removed the top cover, loosened the screws holding the RF unit and the relay above it, then tightned them all again.

Next was alittle wiggling of all connectors in the ares of the relay board.

Now it seems to work without any problems in all bands and all modes (that it can)

Thanks to Eric, KM4ZL from the kenwoodts120_130 group at yahoo

In heinseit the RF unit board's screws was a tad bit loos. I exercised the band selecter when i was at it.

TS-120S under the soldering iron

I have changed D2, D3, and D8 with BAS32L's. Though at low output in CW mode it is somewhat stable on 80M, less stable on 40M and giving full ouput on 20M after initial keydown (I'm using the tx/rx on the front). Looks like SB-844 is the next thing to do. Though D8 is there allready, I have to look at the diagram to see how to do it.

I have now added the two extra diodes.
Next is testing to see if there is any changes.

Modifications on my TS-120S

Changed D2, D3 and D8. Due to the problem of full carrier after initial modualtion in SSB mode or first key down in CW.

I didn't have the suggested replacement diodes, so i changed all 3 to BAS32L smd (Don't ask how).

Poweron and RX works. Next is to test TX.

To do this i need a bigger PSU and a dummy load.

The PSU i can borrow from a fellow ham.