开云体育Emanuele ???RE I decided to leave it alone, I give up.? ?Don’t do that, the radio is 99.777% ?, just some strange thing left. It’s ok to take a break and let the brain cool down. I follow your comments again; all very clear.?? In my sleep, it came to mind that the main dial scale must be set properly. You no doubt have checked this, but maybe there was some slippage since then? So ?maybe there are set screws on the dial scale hub? .. that might slip? Also, you must know this but, at low frequencies, the RF tanks will tune much narrower, and so a bit of? unwanted offset will knock the signal down greatly. Why not do a test: instead of setting the RF band 1 trimmers, at 1400 , set them at ?the low end 600,700? ..and see if they [RF1 and mixer tanks] can be tuned down there by turning the trimmers CW, and if it “aligns”, then try the ?real sensitivity at the low end using the antenna.? If it won’t align there, maybe take a scan of the tanks responses at say 600KCs so you can see if they are too high or too low. I hope you understand my wording. Then you might learn if it ?“tunes low” ?all over the band, or one end is low and the other hi. ?Since you have that Fancy HP gadget you must be able the verify the resonant curves of all tanks at the Hi and the Low end of the band{s}. OF course this is not aligning, it is testing ?to find out where things go wrong. ???????? Must be late there by now spero che tu stia dormendo bene From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emanuele Girlando via groups.io
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2025 4:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HallicraftersRadios] S-85 refurbish: I've got a problem during the RF alignment of bands 1 and 2 - trimcaps don't peak! ? Guys, I performed a complete RF alignment once again. I used a sig-gen and the SA just as a "receiver" to "see" the LO signal and followed the service manual instructions. LO was fine in all bands with LO signal higher than the signal by the IF value (452KHz in my case) in all bands but the n. 4 where it was below. The dials track the sig-gen signal with very low error in all bands. The ANT and MIX trimcaps of bands 1&2 didn't peak, exactly as before. I had to leave them fully released (lower C) to get the MAX output possible. During alignment the BS dial knob was fully CW and , I confirm once again, the BS cap had the plates all out (minimum capacity). The radio performs well in all bands but the lower part of band 1 (<1MHz, as before). ? I decided to leave it alone, I give up. ? Thank you very much for your precious support, guys. Ciao. Emanuele (IU1KNR). ? ?
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