Ham Radio Troubleshooting Advice

Video Transcript

"Welcome to Expert Village. This is Kurt Galser, N7QJM. I'm up here near the antenna; I'm going to pan over so you can see. We're right up in the antenna area. We're talking about these connectors right here in front of us, this time. The biggest problem with amateur radio is the connections. That's where you would end up doing trouble shooting. This connector, right here, this one is actually called a PL2-59 connector and it connects this antenna structure, right here, where we are right now. If for some reason that brakes, then you're going to have to repair it. So, it would be wise to do some soldering and learn a little about that, but we're also going to use an ohmmeter to make sure that it's working. We'll do that next. This is our trusty ohmmeter, and we'll use these two probes here to verify the connections are good. The antenna seems to be in good shape at this point. So, what we're going to do next is actually look at a another common area of problems here on this printed circuit board. And, that is that fuse, right there, is gone and we're going to verify that it's bad. What you'll do is you'll hold one end of the ohmmeter probe on one side and then the other. We'll see if we can do that here by all in one shot here. And, we're holding at one, I don't know if you can see that real well, but we're actually seeing if we have a connection. We'll take a quick glance over there to see if we've got good settings, which we don't. It is open, which means that it is broke and what you'll have to do is solder a new connection or a new fuse right where that pointer is and that will fix the power supply which is what this device is."