[BC] Betcha never seen an arc in your transmitter like this before...

[Kent Winrich, K9EZ]

I still remember the first time I worked on an FM20.....at 2AM.... 
after a long day... at a transmitter site in the middle of a corn 
field.....  Nearly soiled myself!

Mark W Earle wrote:

>Anyone who's ever tuned a Harris FM20 series has seen arcs.. or
>sometimes, just turning one on after it's been off a while.. you jump,
>and turn it on again, or twice more, and it then (usually) plays nice.
>
>FM20, affectionately known as "The Flamethrower" of FM transmitters.
>
>(Thankfully, I don't have one in service - but I do have it's baby
>brother, an FM5k).