[Hammarlund] HQ 180A PROBLEMS

[kf4toh at aol.com]

   hey guys 
        kind of new here so hang in there with me
  IM working on a HQ180AC here that i just got and its got some bugs
  that i want gone!  so i can enjoy it   

      No epay stuff ... but was told it was mint but it wasn't! The guy 
disappeared 
   

    but some other time on that story!
       

   ive re-tubed it with good tubes  and IM rounding up new caps so i can 
replace
   the few old ones that can act up.
       the problem it has is on SSB  audio is crappie  drift is awful  its 
like
    nothing ive ever had. like a voltage problem in the VFO  
     lots of  what i call voltage ripple ... no microphonics that i can hear  

    they sound like everybody has major RF  on the trans signals
  the drifting is so fast that you cant keep up with it using the vernier 
tuning
   and its not just going up  or down  it goes back n fort 
   it doesn't go real  far  i guess 10 or 15  kcs  a bad wabble up n down
          

    ive had the 100a  a 110 and a  170 and they moved a little but nothing 
like
  this.  the drift is on AM  too but very hard to tell 
   and on AM BC  i can rec tune to 7415  and have a good 30 over SIG and
   in the back ground i can hear 7345  just about as good. and it does this
   on other spots in the BC band 

    i have swapped the V12 tube 6C4 2 or 3 times with no change         

      the rec itself is very quiet no AC  hums, good sensitivity 
  
   all controls work good,  ive even cleaned the tube sockets with 

   tuner cleaner  

    before i do a alinement / calibration   i want to make sure everthing is 
ready

   Ele / mech  wise !

     any ideas   welcome

  thanks        


Joe Kane   
"kf4toh"