[Hallicrafters] Re: HT 32 Power

[Rinkie & Ron Pollack]

I'm not enough of an "engineer" to know why your HT32 is losing power, but I
concur with the suggestions of changing the caps.  I just (got it on the air
Thurs!) fixed up my HT32.  I replaced the LV can caps with 2 100MFD 450 V
caps (the originals were 60/40 at 475) and the 2 in the bias supply.  I left
the can there and mounted the new caps underneath.  There's plenty of room.
I also replaced a few paper caps and one mica that looked waxy.  There are a
couple more electrolytics and a few paper that are in the ssb generator
section, but I felt that it was too big a project to dissasemble, and they
had big resistors in series, so that if the caps shorted, I doubt that it
would blow the transformer.

Fired it up, and worked a DU on 15 cw with a dipole right away!  Tried it on
40 phone, and the first audio report was "best tube audio I've ever heard."

And, it looks great with the SX101 and HA1 keyer!

Ron K2RP