[GreenKeys] CV-89 converter memories.....

[Linger, Michael I]

Pete's posting on the CV-89 rebuild reminds me of my younger years (70's) with little or no money when I was given a Hal ST-6 that didn't work.  Young an innocent with lots of time and no money I figured I could fix it until I opened it up and realized someone had built it as a kit, ....someone with at least a 500 watt soldering gun!  Geez, try as I did for days trying to troubleshoot it through the nasty maze of horribly burned hacks of wiring running every-which-way, poor soldering on the circuit boards I gave up and totally stripped the whole frame down to what the kit must have looked like when it arrived.  I cleaned (de-soldered) every terminal on the connectors and wired it properly, lacing the cable bundles as I went.  I rebuilt each circuit board and when it was done it WORKED, no troubleshooting needed.  I kept it a couple of years until I got my first CV-89A's and moved on.  I don't have those original items any longer but do have several CV-89A's and, ........yes, a Hal ST-6 (condition unknown, Yikes!) stashed away somewhere.  Oh what fun it was in those years.  I guess in retirement I'll never be lacking of stuff to play with.  And now, back to my current mission, bringing a military Collins ART-13A transmitter up to life on the air to use for RTTY.  .................Mike, WA5MOE.
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