[Boatanchors] HQ-180 Need Help

[John Page]

The HQ-180 is fixed! Thank you to all of you for the help and encouragement.

After finding and repairing several low voltage conditions and rechecking 
ALL tube voltages and resistances, it seemed to perk up a bit. So once again 
did the alignment series. Boy did the right votages make a difference in the 
60kc set up. It was easy. Did all the IF setups and also the osc and Rf 
setups. Also found the bad T-1 thing.

I took a que from Glen Zook and used a TV balun and had a short run of coax 
that connected to my 80 meter dipole.

After the realignment, I tuned around the broadcast bands and was amazed at 
how many stations I heard. Switched up to band 5, 20 meters, and heard quite 
a few stations there also.

Imagine my suprise when I noticed I had failed to reconnect the antenna to 
the short piece of coax that ran to th TV balun.

When the antenna was connected, I thought the darn thing would jump off the 
table. Guys, it is HOT. Thank you again for helping me get the old girl 
perking.

With what I learned on the 180, I think I will tackle the HQ-170 again as it 
really never was all that great above 40 meters. John

John Page K4KWM
Hollow State since 1953
(ex W8PKU,N8BLB,NA8O)