[Boatanchors] Allied A-2516 Rcvr

[Bill Stewart]

Hi Rodger,
Tnx for the response and coming to my aid again. 
Very interesting about your Allied acquisitions...you are a lucky guy. 
I just recently got this one off of eBay. Its in good shape, works and after some minor cleaning, looks pretty good. The only 'problem' is seemingly low sensitivity on ten mtrs and a fair amt. of hum in headphone audio...which may be fixed when I do some 'lytic checking/replacing. 

Warning: the following is confusing---
The alignment looked pretty straight forward...until I got to the Ant/RF section (my ref. is the BAMA info). Step 6 (for the 3.5 band) says adj. for max the 3.5mhz ant & rf cores (plural) in the coil pack. There are two 'cores' or inductors that match the location diagram on the bottom plate of the rcvr. Adjusting them does increase the 3.75mhz gen. sig. Now in step 7, for the 7mhz band, it says to peak the 7mhz trimmers (plural) for ant and rf. I don't see any ref to 7mhz on the bottom plate diagram...except for the 7mhz osc inductor. I did 'try' adjusting the two outside trimmers (in the ant & rf positions & bottom label indicates they are for 14mhz)in the coil pack and they did peak out on the 7mhz band, but they also peaked out with a 14mhz sig on the 14mhz band. Where are the 7mhz adjustments? Also, there is no ant/rf align. instru. for 21mhz, but refs to 21mhz on the bottom plate diagram. I am totally confused...the only one that seemed correct was the 3.5mhz. alignment.

Any chance you went thru this alignment or understand whats going on. I am probably missing something, but danged if I can see it. Pse excuse the confusing description. Tnx for any assistance...73, Bill K4JYS   

----- Original Message -----
From: WQ9E at btsnetworks.net
To: cwopr at embarqmail.com, boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 6:23:19 PM
Subject: re: [Boatanchors] Allied A-2516 Rcvr

Bill,

It has been 4 years since I went through mine but if nobody else jumps in I will take a shot at your question.

The A-2516 is a decent Trio/Kenwood sourced receiver and I also have the similarly styled A-2517 transceiver.  Unfortunately the conversion scheme is different so the receiver VFO won't function as a remote VFO for the transceiver.

I had looked for the Allied gear for several years before finally settling for a same era Trio JR-310 receiver at a hamfest.  As I was carrying the receiver to my truck I passed a seller unpacking the Allied receiver and transceiver so I quickly acquired those so that was a good hamfest!  Later a Japanese friend helped me acquire the matching TX-310 transmitter to go with my receiver.  Trio/Kenwood was already using those very smooth dial mechanisms familiar to later Kenwood customers in this early gear.

73, Rodger WQ9E

-------- Original Message --------
> From: Bill Stewart <cwopr at embarqmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:45 PM
> To: boatanchors <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [Boatanchors] Allied A-2516 Rcvr
> 
> Good afternoon, 

Has anyone had any experience aligning the A-2516 receiver. I have a question or two on the  ant/rf alignment. Tnx..73 de Bill K4JYS 
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