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Hi Larry.
I set mine at about two to two thirty to gain max power out this seems
to do well. If you turn it past their it shows no more gain..
Ted
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Ted,
I have the R-4B and T-4xb here, also, that I traded for a year or so
ago. I really enjoy using them.
Question: How high do you have to advance the transmitter gain
control in order to get full output? Mine must be turned to about 4
o'clock which tells me that maybe the transmitter needs an alignment
job, or I have some soft tubes.
Do you have the 30 meter crystal for your receiver? I get very little
output on that band when transceiving. If I detune the receiver
preamp I can get full output, but the receiver is not peaked up for 30
meters.
Thanks & Merry Christmas,
Larry W4LK
Ted Wright wrote:
Hello
Merry Christmas as well. I too own the twins r4b t4xb and they work
just as well now as they did new . Great rigs to use on 160 I use
them their the most ... Hope you get to use you pair just as much..
Best 73 .
Ted n3zrx
EP Swynar wrote:
Good Morning All,
Well, I spent the better part of the day yesterday retrieving a set
of Drake Twins from a fellow Ham living some 2+ hours away from me
(one way!)...was the drive worth the bother...?
In a word, YES!
My initial impression of the receiver (a "first generation" all-tube
R-4) is VERY positive: I love the passband tuning feature, and that
calibrated main tuning knob --- in 1-KHz markers --- is clever, and
effective. It's also a very pleasing rig to the eye, and looks FB
sitting next to its matching T-4X transmitter.
I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind, that, had I known better back
in 1983 --- when I stood "...at the crossroads" and took the quantum
technological leap from my Heathkit SB-400 & Hallicrafters S-77A, to
a brand new Yaesu FT-980 --- I would surely have shopped around for
a good used set of Twins then...
I was really racked with guilt about throwing my lot in with a
microprocessed technology that the FT-980 presented, having had the
ability of repairing anything & everything in my shack up to that
time...and, like a fool, I did not even consider the possibilities
of taking the Drake route, and instead, pondered the chances of
buying a good, used Collins S-line, instead, back then.
I ended-up passing the S-line by, because it did not incorporate
160-meters.
Well, it took some 24 years, alright, but an old wrong has been
righted at VE3CUI --- and I could not be happier with this
self-presented Christmas gift, I can assure you!
Merry Christmas to all, & my vy
~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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