Re: [drakelist] The Drake on AM, was: Which brings up another problem....

2007-10-20 Thread Jim Shorney
"Jim Shorney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:24:30 -0600, Howard Traxler wrote: >Is this not how the Drake is supposed to behave on AM? Some kind of >"carrier control" modu

Re: [drakelist] Motorola saves a Drake (W-4)

2007-10-20 Thread Jim Shorney
"Jim Shorney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:46:29 -0700 (PDT), Jim F. wrote: >Do you know the current of the Drake meter ? >The Jewell meters are 50 Ua. 200 uA full scale,

Re: [drakelist] Motorola saves a Drake (W-4)

2007-10-20 Thread Jim F.
"Jim F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- I bought a Drake W-4 at a hamfest with a cracked clear cover. It has a Jewell meter. My Oak Hills Research QRP Wattmeter has the same size Jewell meter and t

[drakelist] The Drake on AM, was: Which brings up another problem....

2007-10-20 Thread Howard Traxler
"Howard Traxler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Is this not how the Drake is supposed to behave on AM? Some kind of "carrier control" modulation; causes the carrier to come up when modulated. I d

Re: [drakelist] Which brings up another problem....

2007-10-20 Thread Jim Shorney
"Jim Shorney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:37:35 -0400, Gary Poland wrote: > CHeck the pin diodes on both the high and low pass filter board. Thanks, Gary. That goes int

Re: [drakelist] Which brings up another problem....

2007-10-20 Thread Gary Poland
"Gary Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Jim, CHeck the pin diodes on both the high and low pass filter board. 73, Gary W8PU http://home.cinci.rr.com/w8pu -

[drakelist] Which brings up another problem....

2007-10-20 Thread Jim Shorney
"Jim Shorney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- I was testing the WV4 with my TR7 at 29 MHz, and noticed that the carrier power (AM mode) would shoot up to around 60 watts, then fall off rapidly to ar

Re: [drakelist] Motorola saves a Drake (WV-4)

2007-10-20 Thread Jim Shorney
"Jim Shorney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- It works! The guts transfered over perfectly! All the internal bosses, grooves, and holes are identical between the two meter movements. I added a 2K 10