[Boatanchors] Heath IG-42 - More

[Lee Buller]

Mark,

Yes, the numbers do flip around and never locks in....and nowhere close to the frequency  that I have dialed in....like 5 Mhz.  Just never locks in at all.  HMMMMM.  I wonder what I should do?  Get a different one?  Recomendations?  I do have a 259B which could be used as a generator I guess.

Lee


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--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Mark Foltarz <Foltarz at rocketmail.com> wrote:
From: Mark Foltarz <Foltarz at rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Heath IG-42
To: k0wa at swbell.net
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 9:58 AM

Lee,

Is the counter displaying anything? Perhaps numbers that seem to keep changing
?
My guess is that there is a lot of harmonic content being generated by the
IG-42 and this prevents a stable reading on the counter.
This is typical for the lower end generators.  I just helped a friend out last
week who had a similar problem
He had another generator that we tried and was successful in getting a stable
reading on the counter.
He then could proceed to do the alignment on his s-38e receiver.

de KA4JVY
Mark




----- Original Message ----
> From: Lee Buller <k0wa at swbell.net>
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:10:01 AM
> Subject: [Boatanchors] Heath IG-42
> 
> 
> Picked up a Heathkit IG-42 and started checking it out.  The tubes light,
the 
> OB2 glows but it seems nothing is coming out of the unit.  The meter on
the unit 
> shows that there is something there (I can change the meter reading with
the 
> front control knob - evento full scale)....but I cannot get my counter to
lock 
> to any frequency that is being generated by the unit.  The counter works
great 
> with the MFJ259 and will read the frequency.  Anyone have any ideas?  I
guess I 
> should buy the manual and see what the specs are...and how to operate the
darn 
> thing.
> 
> Lee - K0WA
> 
> 
> 
> The New Kansas QSO Party - August 29, Sat 9am-9pm and August 30 Sun
9am-3pm CDT 
> More Info at:  http://www.ksqsoparty.org/
> 
> In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply.  If you
don't 
> have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it.  If you
can't find any 
> Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense.  Is
Common 
> Sense divine?
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