Emmanuel ??Oh I sent? more cross-posting.

Now back at square one ?

Entropy is increasing quickly.

So you are back to the apparent ?too-much capacitance or inductance, and similar problem for 4 tank circuits.. strange…

?Emmanuel ?we don’t know the history so presumably this radio is new to you. did it ever work ok on band one? Is there a sign of somebody mucking about around the coils and bandswitch. Could there be a cross between band one and two tanks maybe due to little clearance?...another longshot

Now I am just wondering out loud, the RF for the 2 HF bands seem to use transformers with slugs, and you can see them on the layout, but for band 1,2 there are trimmers shown but no transformer or coil on the layout so perhaps “L3” has a simple winding for band 1 and another for band 2 ????? same situation and question for the mixer tanks? So what would happen if L3 had a common ground connection terminal and a bad connection to ground ? OR something? ??could L3 have been changed ?another longshot

Another thought; I wonder if the alignment instructions are as complete as for older radios.? My thought is that both ends of the oscillator should be set first and any interaction eliminated by repeating the C22 and C25 ?adjustments etc, then set the RF trimmers. It is hard to see it making a big difference… Richard, Emanule, whoever??

A last resort might be to? find the resonant point of each tank at the top end and the bottom end of the main tuning for bands 1 and then 2. ????

Richard has just added some confusion so this is going now as-is only thoughts.

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