The ON/OFF switch ganged with the volume control was very common at the time. I can't fault the Drake engineers for following what was common practice. Besides we don't know what kind of pressure they may have been put under to follow the dictates of the owners or the accountants. In my 34 years of experience in Electronics Engineering I have often found that good engineering practice gets tossed by the wayside if there is a chance of saving a few cents worth of material. Of course that translates to lower selling price and more profits and money for you know who. Hint: it's not the engineers. With regards to the audio problem, I was able to reduce it considerably by rerouting the volume control to just ahead of the LM380 input. The downside is it involves cutting some traces and adding jumpers. Additionally, AM audio level is not as loud. It all comes down to what you can live with I guess.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Shorney Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [drakelist] TR7 Volume On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:44:44 -0500, Garey Barrell wrote: >Only way to fix it that I know of is to take the switch off the control! What >were they thinking!?!? Actually, in the commercial radio biz, that's a feature, not a bug. Keeps dispatchers from turning the volume clean off... -- Jim Shorney -->.<--Put complaints in this box jshorney (at) inebraska.com nu0c (at) amsat.org Ham Radio NU0C Lincoln, NE, USA EN10ps http://incolor.inetnebr.com/jshorney/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - subscribe drakelist in body Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - subscribe drakelist in body Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
