Little L-Per repairs

[Corporal Punishment]

Hey group!
My squadron is still hanging on (barely) to 2 of the original 1970's Little L-Per's from LTronics. They have both seen better days. They both were not working so I opened them up and found multiple broken wires inside. Even with the schematic diagram, getting it wired back correctly is not as easy as it sounds.
Last attempt to get L-Tronics to do a repair, they said they didn't work on them anymore. Checking there website and it looks like they are now out of business.

Anyone know someone somewhere that is good with repairing these? I don't want to make them museum pieces just yet, but neither one is functional if we were to ever need to use it.

Thanks
LTP

Hey, would you happen to still have those old school L-Pers? I might be willing to take a look at them and take a wack at fixing them or take them off your hands. I am currently working on rebuilding one I acquired recently.

[JayCraswell]

A very late reply to the question of L-PERs with broken wires inside.  I've been working on a batch of these and have pain stakingly (spelxt?) made up a diagram of the wiring of these from one that was an easy fix that didn't have broken wires.  Its pencil scribbles but I can make a Circad/Omniglyph schematic that you can read with the demo version at Holophase.com site or email me at refurbatron@gmx.com  And not to hype too much stuff (I'm shameless) I'm selling the full program now for $299.95  Its schematic to PCB and Gerbers to board houses and you can even do things in reverse if you need to reverse engineer something.

Have come to a couple of conclusions about the best way to use them. Step one throw out the wood bent to heck antenna and use a 3 element Yagi.  I've got a DIY maker drawing of how to make one with PVC and cut up pieces of measuring tape (Thats whats inside a Military Blade antenna) which can be bent flexed and will return back to original shape by shaking it.  Learned from one of my Seniors that instead of using the RECV Mode looking at the signal strength meter dial down the volume a bit then do 360 sweeps while dialing sensitivity down and listen (Don't look) until the ELT can only be heard in one direction. Even in an airport full of reflections once your on the beam it will give you a better and faster way to find the ELT. It was explained to me that the Dynamic range of human hearing is far better then the electronics that drive the signal strength meter.

If you don't want to build my "Flex Yagi" for 121.5/121.775 Mhz email me at refurbatron@gmx.com  If your willing to pay shipping and do the proper transfer paperwork (And there are not 100s of you with bad LPERs) I'm willing to at least replace broken wires (Got that down) and possibly give it a full tune up.

I'm planning on making an offset attenuator so that you can take a handheld on say CC2 plug a small circuit to the antenna connector with the other end going to the Flex Yagi. You have a small dial to change sensitivity and use the "ears / better dynamic range" scheme.  If enough people are interested it would be an inexpensive thing to make or offer as open source hardware. *Just remember not to transmit into it.