Re: SX-28A Hum
Once the choke is removed from the chassis can you investigate if its position makes any difference. I mean is the hum the result of an induced field from something? Also, does it make any
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Dang !
Could you measure a leakage between the winding of the ¡°original¡± choke and it¡¯s core ??
Happy that this ¡°mystery¡± is solved !
73, Jacques, VE2JFE in Montreal
De :
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Jacques_VE2JFE
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Hi Don,
Yeah, there is a misprint in the TM11-874 schematic.
The 180M (180K) is the value of R39 (see parts list), but there is another ¡°270M¡± in excess just below it¡.
73, Jacques,
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Jacques_VE2JFE
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Hi Tom.
Very clean SX-28A specimen !
Better shape than my two samples, actually¡
And an original SX-42 (R-42) speaker !
I have the radio, but never found the matching speaker¡
I have a PM-23
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Jacques_VE2JFE
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Ok folks, I found the culprit ¨C that dog gone choke! I replaced it with a 4hy one from an R390A AF deck and the hum is gone. I laid it in the chassis, insulated from the circuits and wired it in
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thoyer
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Re: SX-28A Hum
I received a direct email from a member of this reflector asking what my comments about ground loops in an amplifier chassis had to do with the SX-28 hum discussion.
Sorry, I wasn¡¯t specific
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Mike Langner
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Richard,
Did you see my response with links to videos of the hum?
Tom
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 7:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HallicraftersRadios] SX-28A
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thoyer
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Re: SX-28A Hum
A couple of things: Its quite possible the SX-28 has some residual hum. I don't have one and little experience with them. The hum in the original complaint has not been described in level. Is it
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: SX-28A Hum
With the switch in the ¡°out¡± position, no bass enhancement, the hum is present.
With the bass set to the ¡°in¡± position, there is bass enhancement but no hum.
Tom
Sent: Tuesday,
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thoyer
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Years ago, a PA system amplifier that had been donated to us for hamfest use had an annoying hum when we checked it out before its first hamfest use.
Nothing I tried would ¡°fix¡± the hum.
Until
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Mike Langner
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Re: SX-28A Hum
I recapped my Swan 270B about 21 years ago and its been my most modern HF rig since. When I use a nice old set of headphones, there is no hum. But a modern set of high fidelity phones introduces
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Maynard Wright
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Jim
Re:: ¡°The Bass IN/OUT thing could be attributed to the change in gain of the 1st audio amp. Figure 11, the audio filter curve, shows that the gain is 100+X higher when the bass switch is in
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don Root
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Jacques,
I ¡°may¡± guilty of not returning caps to the same ground as original¡¡¡¡ I need to look into this. I took lots of before and after pics so I should be able to confirm
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thoyer
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Ok, made a couple videos, excuse the camera work and narrating¡¡¡.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10rFu1-W59o6I1Ro8Q4Lq0jG9HbNen6Dt/view?usp=sharing
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thoyer
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Re: SX-28A Hum
I don¡¯t know Jim, I have several other radios (too many actually¡) of this vintage that don¡¯t have this hum.
Yes I neglected to address the speaker, sorry. My bench setup uses an older
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thoyer
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Jacques, I was going thru your recent post and started turning into a pretzel; adding and then removing a resistor.
See my ¡°side-by-each¡± . 180 ¡°M?¡± but no squiggle
Sent:
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don Root
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Tom and JacquesYou are overlooking an alternative, that nothing is actually wrong.? AFAIK. the radio works well but there is a noticeable hum.? Hum is subjective, if you have listened to solid state
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Jim Whartenby
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Let¡¯s resume the case :
Tom pulled the 6SC7 and the ¡°hum¡± remained.
He shorted the two 6V6 grids to GND and the hum disappeared.
No hum when the ¡°bass¡± switch is in the IN position (both
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Jacques_VE2JFE
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Re: SX-28A Hum
Gents, dunno about all that, but why the no hum in the In position? And when base is boosted?
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don Root
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Re: SX-28A Hum
RichardI was a bit clumsily in my previous attempt so I will try again.??
All aluminum electrolytic capacitors are self resonate.? ?There is a frequency where the capacitor becomes an inductor.?
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Jim Whartenby
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