[Drakelist] 20 meter band Xtal

Hello all. This is my first post, hope I don't mess up too badly ! My trusty T4XC failed on just the 20 meter band. Turns out the 25.1 Mc Xtal is bad. As these are used in all 4 series radios I wonder if anyone has a donor radio or other source for this item. Happy to pay a reasonable fee plus

Re: [Drakelist] R4C Interesting Find

Bill, Interesting. Same issue with the Drake 1A. Sensitivity is affected by the quality of the antenna trimmer capacitor bonding to chassis ground. Paul, W9AC - Original Message - From: Bill & Becky To: drakelist@zerobeat.net Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 7:44 PM Su

[Drakelist] R4C Interesting Find

My R4C seemed a bit poor in the sensitivity department so I had an idea to improve it. I aligned the R4C pretty well but it didn't seem very lively. So with the bottom chassis visible I took my screw driver and loosened/ tightend each screw twice on each side of the 4 rows of trimmer bracket gro

Re: [Drakelist] Exploding cap? Further progress?!

- Original Message - From: "Damien Mannix" To: Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [Drakelist] Exploding cap? Further progress?! Thanks Steve and Chris for your helpful advice regarding a possible bad crystal. I think you are right but somehow, des

Re: [Drakelist] Exploding cap? Further progress?!

Thanks Steve and Chris for your helpful advice regarding a possible bad crystal. I think you are right but somehow, despite being most careful, I seem to have made matters worse! Are 45 year old crystals particularly delicate? Should I renew them all? Tried the 15m crystal in th