Re: Very Nice RV4C Arrived and is now working
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Chuck:
I think a lot of?us "of that vintage" remember the?dreams we had of owning a station?like Ray's back in those?days.? That AES ad certainly?affected me for a very long time....still does
When back in Ontario, prior to 2007, I had a nice long?chat with Ray, K9KHW, on 2m one evening during some enhanced propagation from southern Ontario to Wisconsin.? Ray talked about working the bands from the "Starship" as they winged their way over the USA to some distant fleamarket or meeting and I talked of the many Drakes I have owned over the years, starting with a 2-C back in early 1971, all influenced greatly?by that ad.
About 2 weeks later I got a surprise package in the mail with an 8 x 10 glossy of the picture in the ad - just the pic without the ad...so it's big!? I put it in a simple black frame and it sits on top of some of my Drake gear, so I see it every time I walk into the shack.
For the very few on this list that may not know what we are speaking of...see the attached pic.
73 Peter VE7PS
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 3:40?PM Chuck Rippel - K8HU and ex - NMN < lantareamon@...> wrote: Picked up a very nice, cosmetically near-perfect RV4-C to go with the TR4CW-RIT; been wanting a nice one.? I expect it was cheap because it was unstable when tuned.
Easy fix.? Shoot the MODE switch with De-Oxit and clean the surfaces of the contacts on the switch rotor with a fiberglass pen.? Clean the brass, VFO lead screw along with the sliding ground return.? Added the mod of a short length of solder wick is soldered to the moving sliding rod contactor and then soldered to the steel, VFO mount.? Very lightly lubed the now clean of old dino grease, brass VFO lead screw with grease sold in tiny quantities by Panasonic.? A VERY light coast was used to lubricate the slide rails which the laser rode on in SC and DVD players.? It
is very slick!? Put some De-Oxit on the pins of the tube, and did some plug/un-plugs to clean the socket.? Finally, took a brass gun brush to the plug for the TR4-C, took the patena off then shot it with some De-Oxit, did more plug/un-plugs with it also to accomplish some level of cleaning to the socket contacts in the TR-4.
Works like a champ and at @ S/N 21,200 is the newest one on WB4HFN's list.
Even though I have a great deal of respect for Collins and am active in the CCA, have a special place for Drake.? The "C-Line" had just come out and all those pictures in the AES ads of? Ray Grenier enjoying his Drake gear snagged me.? The "C-line_ was the first "store bought"?
radio I bought as a new general then 2 weeks later, and Advanced.? As a novice, the rig was a used Heath HX-10 and Hammarlund HQ-180.
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Chuck Rippel, K8HU - ex WA4HHG - ex NMN
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