Re: [Drakelist] Drake 7 line drift

2010-09-15 Thread Garey Barrell
own my rig. 73 Ron WD8SBB --- On *Wed, 9/15/10, Garey Barrell //* wrote: From: Garey Barrell Subject: Re: [Drakelist] Drake 7 line drift To: "drakelist" Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 3:43 PM Evan - No WWV here with my indoor antenna, so using an Ele

Re: [Drakelist] Drake 7 line drift

2010-09-15 Thread Ron
Barrell wrote: From: Garey Barrell Subject: Re: [Drakelist] Drake 7 line drift To: "drakelist" Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 3:43 PM Evan - No WWV here with my indoor antenna, so using an Elecraft XG-1 signal generator on 7.040 MHz.  Turned it on for 10 minutes, although I d

Re: [Drakelist] Drake 7 line drift

2010-09-15 Thread WA3WOM
where to connect it and I got lazy and took the "easy" way out!!! ;-) 73, Mike WA3WOM - Original Message - From: K9sqg To: captc...@flash.net Cc: drakelist@zerobeat.net Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 10:36 AM Subject: [Drakelist] Drake 7 line drift Fe

Re: [Drakelist] Drake 7 line drift

2010-09-15 Thread Garey Barrell
Evan - No WWV here with my indoor antenna, so using an Elecraft XG-1 signal generator on 7.040 MHz. Turned it on for 10 minutes, although I don't think it moves much as the internal dissipation is so low. Then turned on the R-7, cold start, and tuned in the XG-1 for a ~600 Hz tone. Using Spec

Re: [Drakelist] Drake 7 line drift

2010-09-15 Thread Don Cunningham
Hi, Evan. Thanks for your informative post. You would NEVER offend anyone, so no need to even think that. Being an old curmudgeon myself, I congregate with the same, and they have gotten so spoiled that if I drift much at all, they just disappear!! I wish I could duplicate the drift factor

Re: [Drakelist] Drake 7 line drift

2010-09-15 Thread Garey Barrell
Hi Evan - We've discussed this before, but something just (so I'm slow...) occurred to me. Setting the TR-7 to a dial frequency, as measured by the internal counter. I've gotta think about this, or perhaps someone can explain it more clearly, BUT ... The reference for the signal 'generati

[Drakelist] Drake 7 line drift

2010-09-15 Thread K9sqg
Fellow Drake Enthusiasts, The discussion of the VFO stabilizers prompted me to describe what I have observed about 7 line PTOs over the past 25 years or so. At the risk of offending, I would like to express some observations I have made through tests of my own equipment, TR-7s (over a dozen