RE: [drakelist] Drake AC4R upgrade in Jan 2008 QST

2007-12-09 Thread Hunter Ellington
QST is by far the most boring uninteresting magazine out there. I have them from the 40's and 50's and then the magazine was fun, funny and interesting. Keep up the good work, and maybe you can bring them around. R. Hunter Ellington, Esq. Shareholder Gorrell Giles PC 1331 Seventeenth Street,

Re: [drakelist] Drake AC4R upgrade in Jan 2008 QST

2007-12-09 Thread K9SQG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- John, Sounds like an interesting article. I put thermistors in the primary side of the filament transformer on the L4B and L7 but haven't gotten to the step-start fo

Re: [drakelist] TR3-4-4c etc idiotic question

2007-12-09 Thread Gary Poland
"Gary Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Carl, Yes the washer goes between the dial window and the front panel. The curled edges go toward the plastic dial window with the rounded portion of

Re: [drakelist] Drake AC4R upgrade in Jan 2008 QST

2007-12-09 Thread K9SQG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Infomercial?! So QST is going to stop using MFJ products every time "something" is used as an example in an article? And all the MFJ product reviews will say nothing

Re: [drakelist] Drake AC4R upgrade in Jan 2008 QST

2007-12-09 Thread W4AWM
In a message dated 12/9/2007 8:23:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If I told you of my two experiences with ARRL, for articles I wrote, you > wouldn't believe me. Yes I would and that is why several articles I wrote way back appeared in CQ and not the league rag. I ha

Re: [drakelist] Drake AC4R upgrade in Jan 2008 QST

2007-12-09 Thread K9SQG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Amen John. If I told you of my two experiences with ARRL, for articles I wrote, you wouldn't believe me. 73, Evan**Check out AOL'

Re: [drakelist] Power tubes for T-4XB-C, TR-4C

2007-12-09 Thread K9SQG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Chuck, Those are likely emission numbers from a tube tester. If the tubes are not perfectly matched, all sorts of nasty things happen including misalignment of the

Re: [drakelist] R-4B alignment question

2007-12-09 Thread DW Holtman
"DW Holtman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Agree, Thank you for the information. It makes perfect sense, since there is only 5 crystal slots, not counting the accessory slots. This receiver ca

Re: [drakelist] Drake AC4R upgrade in Jan 2008 QST

2007-12-09 Thread VE3ES
VE3ES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- >>Personally, I think that presenting such a product on this site probably reaches 75% of the target audience! With that said..does anyone have an id

Re: [drakelist] Drake AC4R upgrade in Jan 2008 QST

2007-12-09 Thread Garey Barrell
Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- I love ER, but an article published there will be seen by about 3000 subscribers, many of whom see Drake gear as modern! :-) Compare this to 150,000

Re: [drakelist] Power tubes for T-4XB-C, TR-4C

2007-12-09 Thread Chuck Grandgent
Thanks much Garey, that explains too the magic marker markings on the two Sylvanias. Chuck On Dec 9, 2007 5:15 PM, Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist > gang > -

Re: [drakelist] R-4B alignment question

2007-12-09 Thread Garey Barrell
Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- DW - The 12.6 MHz crystal is required to align the 160M band. If you don't have one, that's probably why you have no signals on 160!! :-) The crys

Re: [drakelist] Power tubes for T-4XB-C, TR-4C

2007-12-09 Thread Garey Barrell
Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Chuck - Those numbers are about what you see on a TV-7/D tester and are equivalent to transconductance, or "gain" of the tubes. The procedure used b

[drakelist] R-4B alignment question

2007-12-09 Thread DW Holtman
Hello, I'm in the process of going through a R-4B. Have already recapped the paper and electrolytic caps and changed out of tolerance resistors. Now it is working great from 40 meters and up. But, I have low sensitivity on 80 meters and almost no Receive on 160. The Cal barely moves the S-Mete

Re: [drakelist] Drake AC4R upgrade in Jan 2008 QST

2007-12-09 Thread W4AWM
"QST" is a pain to write for and probably always will be. The best place for articles on vintage restorations is "Electric Radio." 73, John, W4AWM ** Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=ao

Re: [drakelist] Drake AC4R upgrade in Jan 2008 QST

2007-12-09 Thread Chuck Grandgent
Don't have my January yet... I will say upgrading my AC3 was a very satisfying project. It had mystery (because of the diffs between it and the AC4) and of course danger, but in the end success :) I have one more to do. Chuck, K1OM On Dec 9, 2007 4:36 PM, Mike Bryce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[drakelist] Drake AC4R upgrade in Jan 2008 QST

2007-12-09 Thread Mike Bryce
Boys and girls.. After much hair pulling and emails between the arrl, last year I convinced them there is enough interest in the old drake to warrant publishing the article about fixing the old ac4 supplies. It took several rewrites to please the editors: they did not want it to read lik

Re: [drakelist] Power tubes for T-4XB-C, TR-4C

2007-12-09 Thread john
john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Chuck, of those are emission numbers from a basic tube tester, that's probably as close as you're going to see! John K5MO At 04:14 PM 12/9/2007, you wrote:

Re: [drakelist] Power tubes for T-4XB-C, TR-4C

2007-12-09 Thread Chuck Grandgent
looks like I found a "TR4 matched set" of 6JB6s in the garage that I got back in '99, looks like from WB2LHP. Two Sylvania's and an RCA. Slips of paper for each, two are marked 109, one is marked 110. Those numbers are exactly what ? What is the typical variation seen among NON-matched 6JB6's ?

[drakelist] bulbs

2007-12-09 Thread yash
Hi All ?I found that I had several sets of led conversions for my now gone tr-7. I have given all my books and papers with the tr-7,so I can't look up anything. What was the voltage on the dial lamps and meter lamp on the tr-7? and was it ac or dc feed. Iam using the extra bulbs I have left,...l

[drakelist] TR3-4-4c etc idiotic question

2007-12-09 Thread Gypsymt34
Hi all, TR3-4-4c etc The sliding plastic freq plate, w/ little red knob. A wave washer goes over the red knob. I am assuming the washer goes between the clear plastic and the aluminum front cover ? With the bow on the washer in or out? I have tried in and the twin edges hang on the open