The exchanges, initiated by Jim, on this subject have interested me greatly as I bought an R7 recently. I bought through an ad placed on the Drakelist by a member and a very successful transaction resulted.The radio is the closest to a "new" Drake that I have ever owned! It has two modifications and I do not know the reason for either of them.I hope members will be able to offer suggestions. 1. The RIT on the R7 should be about plus or minus 3khz It has been modified to plus or minus 200hz. Yes 200hz. Why?
2. An SO239 has been installed on the back panel right beside the Bandpass Filter, and the centre pin of the SO239 is connected to the BPF input.The output from the Antenna Splitter switch unit has been rerouted to the spare RCA connector on the back panel. This has all been done so neatly with wires in the harness that one would believe it was a factory job! This gives two choices: A. Connect the antenna to the SO239 so bypassing the Antenna Switch. B.Install a jumper between the SO239 and the spare RCA socket and put the antenna into its proper RCA connector so routing the antenna via the Antenna Switch--in other words the normal way. I await the surge of responses! John. GI3KDR. _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list Drakelist@zerobeat.net http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
