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Old 22nd June 2009   #54
Dean Roddey
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It randomly begins squealing and distorting. It'll stop for 10 or 15 seconds then start again. I thought about 25 times I'd found out what it was, until I figured out it wasn't related to anything I was doing. It's some kind of random thing. It calibrated fine in terms of setting the Q bias and the second step, the name of which is eluding me at the moment.

My mom and her husband are coming out to CA for a visit starting tomorrow, so I'll have to spend all my spare time with them while they are here next week. I'll come back to maybe when that's over and I'm less burned out.

I'm pretty sure it's not a solder joint problem or anything. I check every one witha magnifying glass after making it, because I'm paranoid. But I'll see if I can search around and find some measurements I can make at various points and see if I can get a feel for where it's messing up.
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