[AMRadio] Viking II

[Dennis Aaron]

Hi,

I had to replace mine in my Viking II. I picked up two of them from
Mendelson Electronics. It is a little larger than the original . Send me
your address and I will ship it to you.

Denny Aaron
WB8PIH
----- Original Message -----
From: <ATanner283 at aol.com>
To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 3:34 PM
Subject: [AMRadio] Viking II


> Hi all...I am trying to revive a Viking II and have run into, what else, a
> mod. It APPEARS that the big wire wound resistor, R-13 was cooked or
> something, as it has been removed. The feller then tied the center tap of
T-1
> (HV) to ground directly. He has also added a relay for PTT. The relay is
not
> the problem. I am not getting HV to the olates of the 6146 tubes. I can
make
> no sense of this modification. He has added a large fixed wire wound to
take
> the place of the missing R 13. The HV goes no further than where the wires
> were cut at the junction of L1, C9, and R13. If i tie these back together,
> the HV still does not work, and the tubes(6146) go red. All caps have been
> checked/changed in the power supplies. The HV at C-9 also reads very high.
It
> should be around 600, but reads almost double that. Ant one know of a mod
to
> replace R-13 that the former owner may have been trying??? I don't
understand
> grounding the center tap either. (T-1). Any one have or know of a source
for
> a  WW 20K pot with slider around that I can obtain to put this rig back to
> original. Ideas please???? Thanks.....Al/W8FAX
> _______________________________________________
> AMRadio mailing list
> AMRadio at mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio