[Hallicrafters] sx -111 update

[Anthony W. DePrato]

Well i did not get but 30 mins to work on the girl today. just time too 
unbox the new R.F. generator. from Tenna that the company bought. hi hi.. 
nice unit but leaves a LOT to be desired in the freq breakdown dept. needed 
14.000mcs generator band D 10 to 35 MHz. ugh. band read 13 line ,line , 
line 15 jezzzz. so line 2 must be 14,000mcs. set it there started out with 
the 20 osc coil slug. about half way out got a weak tone. peaked C-35 great 
i have a ssb station off to the side. turned of generator peaked the 
trimmer cap for max sig. peaked the ant tuning C-2 WOW  it works on 20 but 
out of calibration bad. copied a DX net on 20 mts. tomorrow ill take the 
freq counter to work and fine  14,000mcs and do it right. jumped to WWV 
dialed in 10mcs on the generator played with the wwv band osc coil  that 
band started working.. same with 28 mcs. now all bands are working again. 
now to check a few resistors  and replace 4 more caps and i can start the 
alignment . take the broken dial glass out and put in the new one. hummm i 
might just have a piece of glass cut and silk screen a few dial glass's 
while i have a good one setting in a box.. i feel much better about the old 
gal now that she is back working . just hate to think that she was about to 
become a parts unit. at least another Hallicrafters has been saved from 
that fate.
73 Tony wa4jqs

Anthony W. DePrato WA4JQS
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