[drakelist] R4C spurious images

2007-01-29 Thread Andy Bullington
Andy Bullington [EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- I had a great time with my T4XB and R4C working the CX contest yesterday but today I noticed two strong signals where they shouldn't be. I get

[drakelist] bad CW note clean again

2006-03-03 Thread Andy Bullington
Andy Bullington [EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Thanks to all who responded. I exchanged the 20 meter crystal with the one in my R4B and the signal is clean as a whistle. I also got

[drakelist] T4XB bad CW note on 20 meters

2006-03-02 Thread Andy Bullington
Andy Bullington [EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- I've got a very harsh distorted CW note on 20 meters (80, 40 and 30 meters work fine). The rig tunes up on 20 meters fine but the note is distorted

[drakelist] T4X-C sidetone

2005-11-04 Thread Andy Bullington
Andy Bullington [EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- While we're on the subject, is there any way to lower the pitch of the sidetone? I've grown used to a 600 hz sidetone and the high pitched sidetone

[drakelist] S-meter problem on R4C

2005-01-05 Thread Andy Bullington
Andy Bullington [EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterence to the drakelist gang -- I just got an older R4C with very gritty sounding audio, especially on CW. I installed the Sherwood filter caps and power supply board as well

[drakelist] T4XB transmit audio

2004-05-29 Thread Andy Bullington
Andy Bullington [EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterence to the drakelist gang -- My T4XB rocks on CWgreat tone and great reports. Recently I tried A/Bing it with my Omni V on my weekly 75 meter SSB net and the concensus

[drakelist] transceive alignment for B line

2004-03-21 Thread Andy Bullington
I'm sure I'm doing something dumb, but on following the instructions for transceive alignment for my B line, its STILL out. I noticed that after adjusting C61 for a steady tone...moving away from the radio changed things so I had to readjust several times and by the time I got the cabinet back

[drakelist] T4XB erratic output

2004-02-26 Thread Andy Bullington
I've been noticing something strange with my T4XB lately. While working CW, my output will drop to as low as 10 or 15 watts until I turn the gain up to 2 o'clock. At that point it seems normal. Without turning up the gain, if I check my output in tune mode I get full out. I know the manual

[drakelist] re:have a laff

2004-02-03 Thread Andy Bullington
Or how about the ones that make you fear for the safety of the equipment? Saw a very pretty Johnson Ranger on E-bay about a month agoguy said that they hooked a speaker up to it and no matter how they turned the knobs all they got out of it was a strange humming noise...Gee...I wonder why?