[Drakelist] Drake QSO

I had just finished going through my C-line and cleaning everything including switches and buttoning it back up. I set it up in my operating position and after warm up put out a CQ on 80 cw. W0CCA, in western CO came back and we had a long rag chew. Cap was running his Drake B line. What a

Re: [Drakelist] Drake QSO

Rick, As info, you can put the tubers to good use on CW in a couple weeks, and SSB/AM in February. Classic Exchange or CX is sponsoring contests twice per year for antique or nostalgia radios. You receive a 'multiplier' for the age of the equipement used. See the Arrl Website for details at

Re: [Drakelist] Drake QSO

For all that may be interested, here's the announcement from CX for the vintage radio contests upcoming; http://www.qsl.asti.com/CX/Feb2009announcement.html A good way to have some fun with the Drakes !! Thanks, David Wd9cmd - Original Message - From: Rick Tucker To:

[Drakelist] microphone bass boost

My voice has virtually no bass in it and I am told my transmit signal from my TR7 plus Drake 7077 microphone is too high pitched. Can someone help me with a simple circuit to boost bass output from the microphone or offer me other suggestions to solve the problem?John. GI3KDR. attachment:

Re: [Drakelist] microphone bass boost

Hi John, I guess one of the questions I'd also be thinking about is whether the filter alignment (10V regulator board) is correctly adjusted. If the filter skirts are set to cut off low frequency voice tones (yours), the radio's alignment could be hurting your chances. One way to get an idea is

[Drakelist] Dirty chassis b-line

I have an r-4b and t-4xb which I was going to try to clean up (the chassis are REALLY dirty). The fronts are pretty good but the problem is the dial ring on the r-4b is faded to a dark yellow on one end of the dial rotation. I am pretty sure there is no way to solve this so I think I may use

[Drakelist] TR-7 Board History and head scratching

Hi to all, Looking for some historical information on Drake TR-7 boards. I have before me two DR-7 boards, one being green, and labeled C-3849 R. The second board is beige in color and looks to be a bit better quality. It is labeled C-3849 W. I also see that the circuitry is slightly

Re: [Drakelist] TR-7 Board History and head scratching

Hi David, On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:43:46 -0500, David Chris Drake wrote: Looking for some historical information on Drake TR-7 boards. Welcome to the world of undocumented changes. User information like what you have provided helps add data points for the collective. All this started because

Re: [Drakelist] TR-7 Board History and head scratching

Thanks Jim, Oh, and one board has the called for 2.7k resistor to ground on the 25v line, and the other one has a 7k resistor that looks original. None of my schematics show any change called for. Changing out the caps might be a good idea. David Wd9cmd - Original Message - From: