[Drake] 4-Line Choices

[Cecil Acuff]

I think claiming the Sherwood mods to be BS is a little broad and pretty 
much unfounded.  As nice as the R4C is it has it's problems and all are not 
age related.  The power supply by now needs the filter caps brought up to 
date.  The pesky mixer tube issues and it's bad placement on the chassis can 
be improved upon. (eliminate the tube)  The audio amplifier can be improved 
with cleaner audio and reduced heat and there are a couple of other areas 
that slip my mind at the moment.

Sherwood offers kits to fix the identified shortcomings whether they be 
design or age related.

If you are a purist about these radios and feel the need to make them 
original with their few designed in warts that's fine.  They look nice 
sitting on the shelf pretty and all original.  If you use one regularly you 
will find those upgrades have merit.  They are also very affordable to 
perform.  Those are the Sherwood basic mods..

Sherwood also offers mods to bring the receiver up to modern day performance 
specs on the bands.  Mods that can make the receiver a competition grade 
performer for the contester or DXer on CW.  If you buy one of these and want 
to rag chew on 40 SSB with it you won't like it because the roofing filter 
mods do kill the broad, rich SSB sound these radios are known for.  The mods 
are expensive but do transform the radio for tight CW work.  Also check the 
resale value on these...Sherwood modded R4C sell for big bucks relative to a 
stock receiver.

As I understand it not a week goes by that he doesn't sell R4C related mod 
kits....even after all these years.  He never expected that!


Cecil
K5DL

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LEE BAHR" <pulsarxp at embarqmail.com>
To: "John Barnwell" <radioniner at yahoo.com>; <drake at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Drake] 4-Line Choices


> The twins are better for CW then a transciever.  I would go for the C line
> for CW.  As for Sherwood mods.  In my book they mostly are BS.  When I get 
> a
> radio with them in there, I rip them out.  You will like the B or C line 
> "as
> is".  The transmitters are almost identical.
>
> Lee, w0vt
>
>
>
>
>> If one had to choose B-Line twins, C-line twins, or a TR4-CWRIT to be 
>> used
>> primarily for CW and occasional SSB, which option would make the most
>> sense. From what I have read, the C-Line requires modification (Sherwood)
>> to make them shine. Does the TR4-CWRIT suffer from similar shortcomings 
>> on
>> the receiver side? Perhaps this has been visited in prior postings, if so
>> please feel free to indulge me directly. Thanks, John KE7TPA
>>
>>
>>
>
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