Re: [AMRadio] DX-60

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Sawyer
How's your microphone? Mod-U-Lator, Mike(y) W3SLK - Original Message - From: "Brian Zwiener" To: Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 7:55 PM Subject: [AMRadio] DX-60 The crystals arrived today and the DX-60 tunes up nicely and on frequency. But the modulation is horribly distorted. I put in a n

Re: [AMRadio] DX-60

2010-05-14 Thread johndtate
Brian, What kind of mic are you running? The DX-60 having a tube mic amp (12ax7) does really well with hi-Z mics like a D-104 crystal mic. It's a high impedance input and I used mine with a non-amplified D-104. However when you heard me I was using a studio mic and I used a mic preamp wit

[AMRadio] DX-60

2010-05-14 Thread Brian Zwiener
The crystals arrived today and the DX-60 tunes up nicely and on frequency. But the modulation is horribly distorted. I put in a new 12AX7 preamp and checked voltages. All OK. I bypassed the preamp stage and subbed in a known good amp. Still bad. I'll keep working on it. 73