[Drake] 4-Line Choices

[LEE BAHR]

That is your opinion but not mine.  My experience is they screw up the 
radio.

Lee, w0vt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil Acuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>
To: "LEE BAHR" <pulsarxp at embarqmail.com>; "John Barnwell" 
<radioniner at yahoo.com>; <drake at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Drake] 4-Line Choices


>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
>