This rx is different, but as luck would have it, the rx I'm keeping matches (how cool is that?).
It's fun getting these all to play together - sort of adding a new cat to the house :) Steve, W1ES/4 -----Original Message----- >From: Garey Barrell <[email protected]> >Sent: Oct 3, 2011 10:19 PM >To: Steve Wedge <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Drakelist] B-Line transceive alignment. > >Steve - > >Forgot, both Preselector and RF TUNE should be at about 6.5 on their >respective logging scales. > >With two different color crystals you'll find that the adjustment drifts apart >with temperature >changes, but shouldn't be more than 10-20 Hz over time. If the room temp >changes considerably, OR >if you don't let them both reach 'operating temperature' during the adjustment >and when in use you >can see more disparity. > >73, Garey - K4OAH >Glen Allen, VA > >Drake 2-B, 2-C/2-NT, 4-A, 4-B, C-Line >and TR-4/C Service Supplement CDs ><www.k4oah.com> > > >Steve Wedge wrote: >> I was calling and calling and calling... >> As soon as light dawned on Marblehead, I realized that the transceive >> alignment between my >> recently-acquired T-4XB and R-4B #1 (The Problem Child) was off. >> I assumed (wrongly) that you aligned like with the T-4X - that didn't really >> work out. >> In reading the procedure in the T-4XB manual, where they're telling you to >> adjust C61 until the >> tweets zero out, I finally figured that you're listening to the carrier >> oscillator by putting the >> RF tuning onto that other peak you hear on the 80m band. I also figured out >> that you had to >> adjust the GAIN control while in SPOT until you could hear it. >> And yet, it seems I'm still calling and nobody's answering. Is it just >> weird band conditions >> tonight or is there another way that I could have misaligned the receiver? >> I am assuming the >> transmitter is okay because the PO was using it with no trouble. It could >> be a bad assumption, >> but it also seems more "right" that C61 is now more midrange than it was >> before (MUCH more >> midrange)... >> 73, >> Steve Wedge, W1ES/4 >> "I can't complain, but sometimes I still do." >> - Joe Walsh >> If the above message appears, it came from Steve's Son of Laptop! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Drakelist mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
