Re: L4B replacement potentiometer
Stan, You have some great ideas! Happy New Year, Evan, K9SQG
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Evan
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#81420
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Re: L4B replacement potentiometer
Hi Evan, Happy New Year to you and everyone on the group! Maybe my old post to the group will be useful /g/DRAKE-RADIO/message/33242 Both parts are still available. 73 Stan KM4HQE
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Stan Gammons
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#81419
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Re: T4XC failure?
Sorry if my keying logic was inverted. The open key would sometimes close long enough to produce a dit or dah, or long enough to slag my T4XC finals (note to self: if leaving the room, turn stuff
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Jay W6CJ
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#81418
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Re: R-4A BFO Gremlins
I have probably seen maybe 3 tubes that have failed the gas test on a tube tester. The remainder have taken me on various journeys through some really interesting territory. The one that really opened
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Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
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#81417
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Re: TR-5 BPF AMP Board Oddness
Hi Lyndon, Mine is a later S/N, 1120.? Here's a no so up close pic of the board in mine. 73 Stan KM4HQE
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Stan Gammons
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#81416
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Re: Want: List of Drake Repairers
Great sources. TNX. mgilger_at_charter.net_lastradioman@...> wrote:
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Jay W6CJ
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#81415
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Re: R-4A BFO Gremlins
Same here. Garry said it was gassy tubes, I didn't believe him but tried new tubes anyway. Fixed it. The amount of gas is so slight it doesn't show up on most tube tester gas tests. My TV-7
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Richard Knoppow
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#81414
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Re: R-4A BFO Gremlins
YES, even my 13 tube R-4A had fast AVC with a gassey tube! (only until Garey told me I had a gassey tube!). But, the best tubes in an R-4B will still give the too fast AVC. You can tell if an R-4B is
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Gary WB6OGD
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Re: R-4A BFO Gremlins
You have my sympathy with your move. My least favorite thing is moving. Done it too often in the past. Right up there with surgery but at least with surgery someone else does it for you. I found the
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Richard Knoppow
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#81412
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Re: R-4A BFO Gremlins
Richard, I think the Product Detector mod is quite worthwhile. If you've ever used an R-4 or R-4A(13 tube) you will notice its? VERY nice and slow AVC on ssb. You can see the s-meter virtually hang
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Gary WB6OGD
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#81411
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Re: TR-7A No Output
Good on you, Craig. Glad you got your honey back singing! David Assaf III W5XU, VP8RXU [email protected]> wrote:
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David
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#81410
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Re: TR-7A No Output
Victory! I now have keyed CW output on all bands. * The main culprit was the switched +5V bias regulator U2301 on the final amp board. No + output from this 7805 and switched +13.6V going into it.
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Craig W8CS
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#81409
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Re: TR-5 BPF AMP Board Oddness
That is the cover I took off with the hole itn it near the back of the chassis. Sorry I will take the bottom cover off again and try to do better hi hi Jim Ve1RB [email protected]> wrote:
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Jim Harris
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#81408
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Re: R-4A BFO Gremlins
Found your file and downloaded it to my Drake file. -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles WB6KBL SKCC 19998
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Richard Knoppow
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#81407
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Re: R-4A BFO Gremlins
No, I never got a board. I am familiar with Rob's upgrades for the R4C but didn't know about the B. The B is really a very good receiver and doesn't seem to need much help but I am always interested
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: T4XC failure?
You are probably right but I was puzzled. Both Lionel and ARH keys are good keys, easy to clean. J-38 keys were made by several manufacturers but these two, and Radio Specialties, which is evidently
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: R-4A BFO Gremlins
Richard, Look in the Files section for my file: "Product Detector board instructions.doc" (I should have put a better title on it!) This was for my version of Rob's board and how I installed it in my
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Gary WB6OGD
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#81404
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Re: T4XC failure?
Low resistance when the contacts are open, is what I¡¯m assuming what is being described. I have a T-4 that went stuck in transmit but I lucked out ¡ª it wasn¡¯t putting out full power. I¡¯m going
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Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
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#81403
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Re: T4XC failure?
Thank you,that would certainly cause problems. I discovered that the key contact resistance could affect the frequency of my Bud code practice oscillator. I began to get chirp from a bug and found
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Richard Knoppow
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#81402
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Re: T4XC failure?
I think he meant that the key was closed, or at least at a very low resistance, when it was supposed to be fully open. Barry - N4BUQ
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n4buq
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