HELP my rig died!

[Brian Carling]

Curt, your PC clock died too! Look at the date (1980) on your
message.
Is it time for a new CMOS backup battery, OM?

On 23 Nov 80 at 19:00, Curt wrote:


> I am a new ham (45 days) who purchased an HW-101. It has been working great
> until today. After a 1 hour qso I turned it off, when I turned it back on 2
> hours later it was dead. Tubes are lighting up. No signal reception. Only a
> Hiss in the speaker. No Tune-Up nor any marked response from any other mode.
> The only previous difficulty that I had prior to this was that the driver
> preselector would get jumpy from time to time. I suspect dust on the
> variable capacitor would cause the arcing.
>
> I suspect my problem may be a tube. Does anyone have any ideas?????? I don't
> have access to a tube tester unfortunately. Any and all input is gratefully
> appreciated. Thank you so very much in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Curt Filsinger
> KF4UEP
>
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