[Hammarlund] HQ180 Alignment

[Ed Wirtz]

Hi, troops,

Thanks to all of you for your very helpful suggestions. I'll let you all 
know how I do with this old girl. Actually it works quite well and is very 
sensitive, but my HQ170A can be zeroed easily and there's really not that 
much difference in the two.----Well, onward and upward. With winter coming 
on here in MN I need a good head scratcher to keep me busy anyway.

Thanks again,

Ed, KØBKA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Kirkland" <kirklandb at sympatico.ca>
To: <ewirtz at hbci.com>; <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:30 AM
Subject: RE: [Hammarlund] HQ180 Alignment


> Ed, its been a while since I've aligned a HQ180 but you do need to make 
> sure that the
> main tuning capacitor is zero'd correctly. I don't remember there being a 
> procedure in the manual for this. If memory serves me correctly, before 
> the beginning of the frequency bands, there is a vertical bar on the 
> tuning dials.  The tuning knobs should stop adjustment when this bar is 
> vertical.
>
> In short you may have to play with the dial alignment wrt the shafts of 
> the tuning capacitors.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Bill
>
>
>>From: "Ed Wirtz" <ewirtz at hbci.com>
>>To: <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
>>Subject: [Hammarlund] HQ180 Alignment
>>Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:29:49 -0600
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am trying to align an HQ180 and am having difficulty getting the radio 
>>to track across any band. I can get it to track at both low and high 
>>points but tracking is off almost one whole division in the middle. In 
>>fact it gets progressively worse as you move along each 100KHz point on 
>>the main dial until you get to the middle. As you continue to the other 
>>end it gradually comes back in. In any of this I do not move the band 
>>spread dial from the 100 set mark. It's so bad that it is difficult to set 
>>any of the ham bands because it is a guess where to set the main dial.
>>
>>Any of you geniuses out there have any suggestions other than to put it 
>>out on the curb?
>>
>>Thanks and 73,
>>
>>Ed, KØBKA
>
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