In line with your message, some time back maybe a year or more, John/K5PRO found a DX 100 in stock state. He began to read and look for modifications for the transmitter. And as most of you know, there are many that have been published so he gathered them together and, one at a time, made those modifications. They even included changing the modulation transformer and almost all were to increase the audio range and gain additional headroom. The simple mod was to parallel the coupling caps in the audio section only. I wish John would join this discussion to explain what all happened.
Some of them actually made the audio worse than the stock configuration in terms of distortion. I am not sure where John left the DX 100 but from what I remember, the mods did not provide much, if any, gain. So after all that you have a piece of equipment that is not like the manual. And as most of us know, the paperwork done when mods are made is not kept and transferred with the radio. This leads to hours of tracing the circuit then deciding if we should keep the mod in place. This is amateur radio at its finest. People actually working on something to improve it and we are one of the only groups that is allowed to make modifications and use the radio on the air. Everyone else must get approval from the FCC. Where we go wrong is failure to properly access and prove our work. Most of us rely on the ear of another ham or their S meter readings. These two topics are for a long discussion at another time, but my message is think about what you are doing before taking the clippers to a radio. You actually may be doing more harm than good and you will definitely reduce the value of the equipment if either of these two things are important. To me, removing a unit of a radio that I will not use does not make sense. However, that said, it is your radio to do as you wish and one thing we try to do as operators of AM equipment is preserve the equipment and mode. Jim/W5JO ----- Original Message ----- > Hi Don, > > How about those vintage Johnson Ranger & Viking transmitters with > all of the > "classic" hi-fi audio mods done on them by the latest & greatest > AM > ghuru(s)...? > > ...And I do NOT mean mods that might entail a simple increase in > capacitor > value here, the removal of a bypass capacitor there, etc. etc.---I > mean the > whole enchelada, where some current "expert" corrected the > "faults" of the > original Johnson engineer by (literally) completely gutting & > re-building > the entire audio section, from beginning to end...! > > ...And then they peddle these abominations as "classic" rigs... > > It's like dropping a Chevy V-8 into a '32 Ford, & selling it as a > "vintage / > classic" car---hardly! And you are right-on: such butchery DOES > (IMHO, > anyway) detract from any possible re-sale value of something that > has > morphed into someone else's "ideal" personal creation... > > ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3xZ > > > ************************************** > > > You know the mods I meanAU >> > >> > I have started replacing caps in an SP-600 JX-17. I removed >> > the crystal >> > unit and was wondering if there is a need for it other than >> > using >> > crystals. In other words can I leave it out and if so what >> > connections >> > need to be made to bypass it. >> > >> >> >> If you are not using the crystal unit, but it is not impairing >> the > function >> of the receiver, what is the point of removing it? You might >> find it > useful >> sometime in the future, or if you eventually sell or swap the >> receiver, a >> subsequent owner might want it in original condition. Besides, >> you will >> either have a useless function control on the front panel or some >> empty >> holes. >> >> IMO it decreases the value of a piece of equipment to butcher it >> with a >> "modification" that serves no useful purpose. >> >> That reminds me of AM transmitters that sometimes appear at >> hamfests that >> have had all the components in the speech amp and modulator >> removed to > make >> "CW transmitters" out of them after SSB came along. Or a >> Hallicrafters >> receiver I saw once in which a CB'er had removed all the coils >> except for >> the band that had 11m. >> >> Don k4kyv ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
