[Hallicrafters] SX-42 Bandspread

[Al Parker]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Soennichsen" <rsoennichsen at gmail.com>
 -- in 2 posts he said:
> The RF alignment works better when you have the band spread tuning set
> correctly (not influencing the LO).  This was a major headslap moment,
> a mix of "yea!" and "I am an idiot".
 -- and --
> Where can I find details on setting the bandspread tuning dial?  It
> appears that the bandspread tuning caps are "removed" when the cap
> plates are 100% dissengaged....

Hi Rich,
    I suspect that almost all of us who've done an SX-42 have run into the
same learning experience.  I sure did hit my head over it.  I don't have
an SX-42 now, did one fully, had another but chickened out and sold it as
a project.  (The buyer did a beautiful job).  But, seems like the
bandspread dial goes "both ways" from the set point, depending upon the
band.  I don't think the manual was much help in deciding where things
should be upon re-assembly or alignment.  They probably figured nobody'd
ever have to disassemble them.
73,
Al, W8UT
New Bern, NC
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