I had this same problem in one of my rangers. I need to dig back through my notes and see what the problem was. I'll get back with ya rick
Ronnie - W5SUM On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:39:08 -0500, Rick Brashear wrote > Well, after retracing some of my steps I discovered a high > resistance screw type connection on one of the capacitors in the > buffer which seems was part of my oscillator problem or part of the > reason I was getting such low drive. I also discovered a partially > broken clip on the buffer (828) tube socket. With those two items > repaired I am now getting ample drive, not excessive, but ample to > the pa grids. Now I have encountered yet another oscillator woe. I > have three (3) crystals for the 160 meter band, 1885 mc, 1975.15 mc > and 1995 mc. I have the transmitter setup and neutralized for the 1885 > rock, however, it seems close enough when I use the other two also. > Now for the problem. The oscillator starts instantly upon transmit > when the 1975.15 rock is in use. When the 1895 crystal is in use > there is a tiny delay, but with the 1885 rock there is sometimes as > much as a 2 second delay before the oscillator kicks off. The 1885 > crystal fires instantly in other rigs or in my signal generator. Do > you think the capacitance loading of the crystal has something to do > with this? It's a booger bear to change the capacitors in the > oscillator, so I would sure like an opinion or two before doing it. > > Thanks and sorry for the long winded explanation. > > Rick/K5IAR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
