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A nice wee surprise summit-to-summit contact today with Colwyn, MM0YCJ. I was on the top of Stuchd an Lochain, up the top end of Glen Lyon while Colwyn was on Creagan na Beinne to the South of Loch Tay. I hope he was having better weather than we were......

The little Yaesu VX-6 is a great radio for chucking in the rucksack as it's waterproof, pretty much bombproof and almost idiot proof. I've tested two out of three of those features. ... See MoreSee Less

A nice wee surprise summit-to-summit contact today with Colwyn, MM0YCJ. I was on the top of Stuchd an Lochain, up the top end of Glen Lyon while Colwyn was on Creagan na Beinne to the South of Loch Tay. I hope he was having better weather than we were......

The little Yaesu VX-6 is a great radio for chucking in the rucksack as its waterproof, pretty much bombproof and almost idiot proof. Ive tested two out of three of those features.

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I’ve recently discovered my HB9CV again from the depths of my shed. (Reclaimed it from the spiders) I’m fancying finding a good day to go out up the hills with my Baofeng.

15 hours ago

I've recently been working on one of the rotators that we take contesting. The Yaesu G2800DXC is the one we use for the 3 element monoband yagi for 40m as its the most powerful rotator Yaesu do.

We do give the stuff a bit of a hard time, its not meant to be built and dismantled as many times as we do it so sometimes stuff goes faulty and has to be repaired.

I had identified the faulty parts and Contacted Yaesu UK to source them. I have to say, they were very helpful and very soon, parts were on their way.

After I'd ordered the parts for the G2800DXC, I remembered that he had a damaged G1000SDX which I took to bits to see what was broken. Again, I contacted Yaesu UK and asked if the parts were available, they were so I ordered them. This time, the GM2T team paid for the parts as that is who the G1000 SDX belongs to. The G2800DXC is mine, so I paid for those parts.

Fast forward to a rainy today and I set about rebuilding the G2800DXC. The hardest part of this is re calibrating the needle on the controller. After about an hour of fiddling, I managed to get it set so its now good to go.

I then decided to rebuild the G1000SDX. The parts consisted of top case, bottom case and potentiometer cage. Its all done now, shiny and working.

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Ive recently been working on one of the rotators that we take contesting. The Yaesu G2800DXC is the one we use for the 3 element monoband yagi for 40m as its the most powerful rotator Yaesu do.

We do give the stuff a bit of a hard time, its not meant to be built and dismantled as many times as we do it so sometimes stuff goes faulty and has to be repaired.

I had identified the faulty parts and Contacted Yaesu UK to source them. I have to say, they were very helpful and very soon, parts were on their way.

After Id ordered the parts for the G2800DXC, I remembered that he had a damaged G1000SDX which I took to bits to see what was broken. Again, I contacted Yaesu UK and asked if the parts were available, they were so I ordered them. This time, the GM2T team paid for the parts as that is who the G1000 SDX belongs to. The G2800DXC is mine, so I paid for those parts.

Fast forward to a rainy today and I set about rebuilding the G2800DXC. The hardest part of this is re calibrating the needle on the controller. After about an hour of fiddling, I managed to get it set so its now good to go.

I then decided to rebuild the G1000SDX. The parts consisted of top case, bottom case and potentiometer cage. Its all done now, shiny and working.

Not a bad days work.

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👏👏 nice work as usual Cambell 👏👏👏

Well done Cambell

I know who to ask for tech support when any of mine play up👍. Just waiting on a package from Hygain USA with parts to repair 2 off my T2X tailtwisters. Watch for some pictures of these repairs 😂

Must’ve had 3 weetabix for breakfast 😉

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These are not meant to be holes. These have happened because the top bolts have either been too long or have been over tightened.

Do they need sealed?

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Gotta transfer the badge eh ??

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Potentiometer gear goes in here.

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