[Boatanchors] Fw: [Heathkit:Yahoo] Fw: DX-100 RF delay

[Bill Cromwell]

On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 13:21 -0500, Bob wrote:
> I had a little time to play with the DX-100 in question and so where I
>  had been only tuning up only on the 75 meter band I decided to try
>  another band. I tuned on 40 meters and there was no delay problem
>  there. When I switched back to the 75 meter band I found that at least
>  at this point that the delay problem has dissappeared. Don't you just
>  love it when they fix them selfs and you don't know any more than when
>  the problem started. I still have other problems . When I tried to
>  tune on 160 I get very erratic or no grid drive. I don't get a lot of
>  time to work on the set but I will try one band at a time and will get
>  back with any progress or regress. Thanks for the help and
>  suggestions. Bob W1GTH .

Hi Bob,

Maybe a wild goode chase I would be focusing on the bandswitch. Or - did
you also move the mode switch? Those wafers and contacts are getting
pretty old. On my Ranger I had to disassemble far enough to mechanically
scrub (carefully) the contacts, wafers, fingers, etc. I removed a lot of
crap. The old squirt it with DeOxit type of thing failed except that it
helped clean the last of the crud out after I scrubbed it.

73,

Bill  KU8H