[drakelist] Bad Tubes ?

2005-02-10 Thread Vanmor
Well   I seem to have bad tubes. I dug out the Heathkit IT-17 tube checker. I hope I had the switches in the right positions.   I checked in the short position and this also checks bad.   Before I tested the tubes, I did a "sniffer test" and found I was getting RF to the right places.

Re: [drakelist] TR7 Display problem

2005-02-10 Thread Jim Shorney
"Jim Shorney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang -- Hi Bud, On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:02:04 -0700, sebdesn wrote: >Checked +10v and +5v on parent board as ok. In rcv +10T >is .386v and +10R is 0v.

Re: [drakelist] Tr-4 Power Output

2005-02-10 Thread Gary Poland
"Gary Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang -- Matt, With new 6JB6's you will see over 200 watts output on 80 meters and around 100 watts on 10 meters. The power out could be less depending on the

[drakelist] TR7 Display problem

2005-02-10 Thread sebdesn
"sebdesn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang -- I have a TR7 that on powerup reads 96670.0 and then drifts down to 96625 after a few minutes. Tuning knob does not change it. Band switch does not change i

RE: [drakelist] Tr-4 Power Output

2005-02-10 Thread Gerry
"Gerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang -- Of course, I always have to wonder about the accuracy of the wattmeter being used. If the meter previously indicated 150 to 200 watts and now only shows about

Re: [drakelist] Tr-4 Power Output

2005-02-10 Thread Al Parker
"Al Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang -- Hi Matt, No, it's not normal, but not necessarily soft tubes. Is it that bad on all bands? If so, then it's probably not the tubes, as they'll lose o

[drakelist] Tr-4 Power Output

2005-02-10 Thread Matthew E. McNeely
"Matthew E. McNeely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang -- I was wondering what is the real world output of a Tr-4? I have tuned mine into a dummy load and at about .4 A I am getting around 100W in CW mode

Re: [drakelist] R4C xtal bank bad

2005-02-10 Thread Garey Barrell
Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang -- Eric - There isn't a "good" way to correct the wafer "play" once it occurs, short of wafer replacement. I have seen some with very thin Teflon? tape wr

Re: [drakelist] Drake 2-C Problem Help Please

2005-02-10 Thread VE3AX
"VE3AX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang -- Jim: This sounds similar to the problem I am having with an R-4B I was trying to get running last night. Things improved after changing out some leaky tubes