My father has an MFJ-993
and it doesn't work. Here are the symptoms:
All tests pass OK, Frequency Counter doesn't seem to work but LCD does, Can manually tune it. (I don't know if all these are exactly true or not but just from what I've been told)
I'm guessing that it's the frequency counter part of the circuit that is bad and the pic cannot get the frequency for some reason.
The frequency section consists of a 74HC14, 2 transistors, 2 resistors(103 and 562), and a few caps(4 to 5). (I'm guessing that this is the frequency counter section)
The two transistors both seem to have holes in them. I'm not sure that they are bad or not though as they are sot-23's but the tiny holes don't seem to be on any of the other transistors. (I'd bet they are bad)
Also, they seem to be used as diodes. I only say this because they are marked DXX instead of QXX like all the other transistors. Again I'm just guessing.
Any ideas? I'd like to replace these transistors but I have no idea what they are... NPN's? PNP's? Nch fets? etc... I think the numbers on them are
587, 5D7 or 507. The 7 is sidewise too.This is what I'm guessing they are:
I'm going to go ahead and replace them with normal diodes and hope for the best.
Any other ideas?
Thanks, Jon