I have some good news.
If you recall, my 2B had a 6BE6 installed as V-6, the AM detector.
Yesterday, I got a NOS 6BF6 and plugged it in. It made a very big difference.
The set now performs extremely well in Diode/AM mode. It also performs well
with the Product Detector and BFO on.
Good deal Joe! According to my DXing friends (since I'm off the air with the
impending sale of our QTH) have been telling me the bands have been really
crappy so I think the lack of signals on 10/15m is probably not a problem with
your rig, especially if your sig gen is being heard ok.
Let us
Nice to hear you got the 2B working better.
My 2B actually works better with a different tube than the original
type for V5, I believe, but not sure if it's V5 or V6.
With all the original type tubes, the S-meter doesn't have as good of a
range as it should.
The RF gain control pot doesn't
- Original Message -
From: Schichler, Alfred (GE Energy Services)
alfred.schich...@ge.com
To: Joe Connor joeconno...@yahoo.com; Mail List - Drake
Gear Drake Gear drakelist@zerobeat.net
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Drakelist] Drake 2B Update
Nice to hear you
A problem has cropped up on my L-7. For no reason that I can tell, the Load
Capacitor is now shorting going from Dial Number 2 to 3. It never did this
before, but is doing it now. The amp was used for a year or so and then sat on
a shelf for a year. I decided to replace it with another lower
Roger,
First order of business is to determine where the short(s) is taking place.
Often when an arc occurs, a little pit builds up some of which goes below the
surface and a little bit which goes above the flat surface on one or more fixed
or variable plates. This in turn lowers the
Hi Roger
It sounds like the capacitor might have gotten damaged by something
knocking into the knob while it was sitting unused ? I can think of no
other way for the variable cap to be shorting out now, when it wasn't before.
Alternately, did you perhaps drop something or bend a plate
Get a good light, and maybe a magnfyer...and eyeball that baby...
You will see the issue, then you can fix it.
73,
Lee
-Original Message-
From: Roger White rwhitete...@verizon.net
To: drakelist drakelist@zerobeat.net
Sent: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 8:12 pm
Subject: Re: [Drakelist] L-7 Loading
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