Re: [Drakelist] Muting a non Drake Receiver

2011-11-26 Thread Henry Foglesong
Gary, I was the one with the problem of muting my NC-300 with my T-4XC. I have been communicating with Garey Barrell about this, and have tried a number of things including a mod to the transmitter to mute the receiver with bias instead of using the normal process of opening up the cathode circ

[Drakelist] WH7 PEP mod

2011-11-26 Thread Woody
*Hello, I hope everyone had a Great Thanksgiving and ate to much!!!* *I purchased the PEP kit from Phil (K4DPK) who advertise's on QTH and installed it in about 5 min. so you know it was an easy install. And it works Great. Phil is a Stand up kind of Guy, he's a Great person and great to do bus

[Drakelist] Muting a non Drake Receiver

2011-11-26 Thread GARY ELLIOT
Several days ago there was a discussion on using a T4XB to mute a non drake receiver. I believe it was a National 303 ? I would like to use my spare T4XB to mute and cause no damage to my Collins 75A4 receiver. Did the gentleman with the 303 resolve his problem ? 73 Gary___

[Drakelist] R-4C Fox Tango filter 1st i,f,

2011-11-26 Thread J G
Hi, I have a Fox Tango first i.f. filter in my R-4C. Part YF-56H60G 5645 khz No. 499   I searched the archives and google, but am not coming up with a definite answer. Apparently, this is not original equipment. DKmods (http://mods.dk/view.php?ArticleId=2534) has me wondering if this is the 6 kh

Re: [Drakelist] T-4X Stability

2011-11-26 Thread Steve Wedge
I should have commented that what Eddy reported doesn't seem unusual given the temperatures involved. The fact that everything seems to have settled down after an hour obviously empirically shows what time was needed for the 59F ambient warmup from cold. Even an "ovenized" counter will drift w

Re: [Drakelist] T-4X Stability

2011-11-26 Thread Steve Wedge
I like warming up the counter for a while if not possessing an oven. Can't remember if a Fluke 1911A has one, or not. Steve Wedge, W1ES/4 I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. -Ayn Rand. All my comput

Re: [Drakelist] T-4X Stability

2011-11-26 Thread Steve Wedge
I didn't mean to imply that 59 was room temp - it's been a long time since I lived in New England ;-) I did used to have my shack down cellar when I lived up there, and 59 would be warm in some instances before the baseboard heat came up to heat the place. Obviously, you must allow for more.

Re: [Drakelist] AC Noise Rumor On TR4-c

2011-11-26 Thread Garey Barrell
Frank - Check with Tom at www.hayseedhamfest.com. He has complete capacitor kits including the twist-lok for the TR-4C. C145 - original A = 20 uF @ 250 VDC B = 60 uF @ 250 VDC C = 10 uF @ 25 VDC D = 10 uF @ 250 VDC The 250 VDC sections really should be at least 300 VDC, as typical voltag

[Drakelist] AC Noise Rumor On TR4-c

2011-11-26 Thread Radio Vintage
HI In my TR4-c you hear a noise in the background of AC. In addition to the power supply capacitors  on  AC4 Question: 1)  What capacitors can create this noise of AC 2)  "Ac noise" can be caused by the Multi Capacitor C-145 ,  what are its characteristics I thank all Frank __

Re: [Drakelist] T-4X Stability

2011-11-26 Thread Gary Winblad
Something I haven't seen discussed and I have noticed on my R-4A is: One end of the PTO range drifts A LOT more than the other end. IIRC it is the high end of the dial (where the PTO slug is inside). 73, Gary WB6OGD - Original Message - From: Eddy Swynar To: captc...@flash.net Cc: drake

Re: [Drakelist] T-4X Stability

2011-11-26 Thread Eddy Swynar
Hi Curt, Wow...! What I really wanted to do here, primarily, was to validate my "fix" of the Drake PTO that's been practically driving me to drink here lo these past many months! Hi Hi. What I'll do, then, is warm-up the 751A separately for one full hour, before initiating a repeat of the tes

[Drakelist] My post never made it to the list

2011-11-26 Thread Thom LaCosta
From time to time I get messages asking why a post did not make it to the list. More often or not, the reason posts do not make it to the list is that they come from an address that is not a member. This often happens to folks who use alias address. Most of the time I see that someone has tr

Re: [Drakelist] T-4X Stability

2011-11-26 Thread Curt Nixon
GM Eddy: Even the 100Kc calibrator is going to suffer from start-up drift. At the very least--and surely acceptable for a tens-of-Hz startup measurement, just leaving the 751A on for some period of time before doing the start-up test on the Drake should suffice. I settled my 751 down an ama

Re: [Drakelist] T-4X Stability

2011-11-26 Thread Eddy Swynar
Hi Curt, When I get the chance this weekend I'm gonna run some stability tests on the 751A here, using a 100-KHz crystal calibrator / oscillator as its "umpire"... You've got me thinking: maybe there really WAS a reason that ICOM offered for sale an optional "high-standard / ultra-stable" cryst