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Jason,
I'd suggest not hacking on a fairly rare piece of Drake gear, and instead
suggest selling it, and taking the money to purchase a better piece of AM
gear, like a Heath DX100 or Apache, or a Johnson Viking II. These other
pieces of gear are much more suitable for AM than any of the sweep tube
Drake transmitters.
Cheers!
John K5MO
At 10:33 AM 7/25/2007, Jason Buchanan wrote:
hi,
I've got an old T-4 Reciter that I was thinking of using for AM operation
but was considering the small modification (11/1994 QST WB4IJN) to make it
produce a constant carrier.
A couple questions come to mind: is this still the preferred way to do
this or is there a better way to run AM on the T-4, and I suppose the
obvious question is this even possible on the T-4 (i.e., should I perform
this on my T-4XB instead). I really don't want to cut around on my T-4XB
and the T-4 is primarily a CW rig for me so a little modification on it
doesn't bother me.
And the final question is how does one tune the unmodified transmitter for
optimum AM operation? The last time I tried it I was able to reach peaks
of nearly 100W output but that doesn't seem realistic (guessing I had a
lot of flat-topping).
Thanks
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73 Jason N1SU
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