[Boatanchors] DX 100 losing grid drive on 80 mtrs only
wa1zuf at juno.com
wa1zuf at juno.com
Sat Oct 21 08:32:15 EDT 2006
Here's my problem:
Transmitter has plenty of grid drive on 160, 40 & 20. (10 is low,
however it was low before I had an issue on 80) When I first got the
rig, 80 worked fine, When the drive started to fail it was
intermittent, dropping down while in QSO I would have to turn up the
drive control and then is would suddenly return. I have cleaned (using
de-ox-it) and inspected all the rotary switch's paying close attention
to the band sw.
Working into a dummy load, I can get 4+ ma of drive on 3.500 (still
low as compared to 160 and 40) as move up the band, the drive drops
down to 1.5 ma by the time I get to 3.875. (I have also checked it
with q 3.85 crystal with no improvement noted)
I had a spare 12by7a, (of unknown condition) when I tried it the drive
drop further down.
So what avenues can any of you folks recommend?
Thanks,
W1TAV - Steve
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