Jesse
Well Known Member
So I'm working on a panel upgrade, part of which involves removing an SL-40 and installing an SL-30. For those who know these two radios (but not too well), you would think just what I thought, "add the Nav Connector and Nav Antenna connector to he back of the SL-40 tray and voila." Of course, there are holes in the back of the tray that fit those parts perfectly. But you, as I did, would try to slide in the SL-30 and would find that it slides in about 1/4" shy of all the way. After and hour or two of head-scratching and wondering what it was hanging up on, you would, as I did, realize that the SL-30 tray has both antenna connectors at the same depth on the back shell, while the SL-40 tray has the COM antenna connector at the "right" depth, but the place where the Nav antenna connector would go about 1/4" shallower. I am not really well versed in other SL instruments, so I assume some other instrument uses the right half of the SL-40 tray for something else. So I tried to save about 3 minutes and ended up losing 3 hours in the process. Chalk up one more for ole Murphy!