[ARC5] BC-455 not working

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Sat Jan 13 19:58:46 EST 2018


On 13 Jan 2018 at 19:37, kg4kgl at gmail.com wrote:

> 
> I have already restored a BC-454 and aligned it. So that is not a problem. I have sig gen, 
> frequency counter, and scope. 

OK. Good.

> When I inject the 2830khz signal, where do I check to see if the IF is picking it up?

At the audio output.

If you have no audio output, connect your scope to the input (grid) of the 12A6. If you "see" 
an audio signal there, then check your audio transformer. Many of these old audio 
transformers are failing now. I have some half-dozen which are bad.

Ken W7EKB

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