Just performed a complete alignment of the SX-117 and all went well
with better performance. Having the proper equipment to perform the
alignment is of great help of course.
Anyway, before the alignment, and after this alignment, I still have
inverted USB and LSB. That is, in the LSB switch postion, I actually
receive USB and in USB I receive in LSB. I swapped the (2) crystals,
1.600khz and 1.700 khz, and all is fine. However, the sockets the
crystal go in are labeled the other way. In other words, to get the
USB/LSB correct, I switched the crystal into the opposing sockets.
The 1600khz crystal in the 1.700khz socket and so forth. I checked
the crystal frequencies and they are exactly on frequency.
Checking the USB/LSB switching, the correct crystal is being
selected. Now I have a delima where I have physically reversed the
crystals into the incorrect sockets, but the receiver works. Anyone
with ideas of what is going on here? Is it possible Hallicrafters
labeled the socket incorrectly or put the socket in backwards. Could
someone have rewired the switch to socket connection.
K2WH
Bill (Group Owner)