Re: [Drakelist] TR-7 Alignment

2009-02-08 Thread Jim Shorney
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 19:23:52 -0500, David & Chris Drake wrote: > >Other issues: I had tweeked the S-meter some, but still reads high. I've >noticed at least 4 S-units higher than my Omni VI+ and about 5 S-units >higher than my TR4C which I think reads a bit low. On Calibrate, CW, on the >null

Re: [Drakelist] TR-7 Alignment

2009-02-08 Thread David & Chris Drake
Thanks to Gary and Jim, I think the finals in this rig are original, but not sure. I'll look closer next week and play with it some more. I had an ALC light on 28.7full brightness... at full CCW on the predriver with carrier control set at maximum CW. I may go back to 150w and have anoth

Re: [Drakelist] TR-7 Alignment

2009-02-08 Thread Jim Shorney
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:36:01 -0500, Gary Poland wrote: >If I remember correctly the explaination I got from Drake for lowering the >power to 120 watts was for PA stability on 40 meters, keeping the predriver >below 1/2 turn. I ran into the 40 meter instability problem on two rigs in the 3000 se

Re: [Drakelist] TR-7 Alignment

2009-02-08 Thread Gary Poland
David, There is a resistor that is switched in on 10 and 15 meters to form a divider with the ALC pot and lower the RF power out required for the ALC to compensate for the lower gain of the PA on those bands ( Thats why 2SC2879's are a popular replacement, more high frequency gain). The predr

[Drakelist] TR-7 Alignment

2009-02-08 Thread David & Chris Drake
Hello, I decided to go back into my TR-7 this afternoon and do some tweeking to my previous alignment. (the S meter seemed to read higher than my other radios by quite a bit). After re-setting the S-meter per the manual, I thought I'd go back over the transmitter settings and lower the output s

Re: [Drakelist] Fan for L-7

2009-02-08 Thread Jim Shorney
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 08:24:51 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: >I can't say anything about the fan in question, but I've rebuilt many computer >fans with varying success. Cheap sleeve bearing computer fans are evil. :) I've taken many apart and lubed them. Sometimes they last, sometimes not. I'v

Re: [Drakelist] Wattmeters

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Re: [Drakelist] Wattmeters

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[Drakelist] Wattmeters

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