Boatanchor Maintainence

[koØm]

Well, it's that time of year again, the Yaesu FT-101E needs servicing. I will strip the skins off of it and, take a spray bottle of 91% rubbing alcohol and spray the mode switch, band switch, volume control and every other pot and switch that is accesable; it will then sit for a couple of days to dry out.

I just noticed that on one band (didn't get around to checking all of them), that after the transceiver is keyed, the receive is "muted". No matter what I do, the receive is very low, after being powered off a couple of hours, the receive is normal again.

I'm hoping it's just a mode switch problem.

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