[Hammarlund] HQ-129-X Question

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
To: <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] HQ-129-X Question


> On 28 Nov 2010 at 18:08, Roger D Johnson wrote:
>
>> >> 80 and 40 meters. The error becomes progressively 
>> >> larger
>> >> as
>> >
>> The HQ-140 manual says the local oscillator is 455 kHz 
>> BELOW sig freq
>> on two highest bands. The receivers are very similar. 
>> This could be
>> your problem, Richard.
>
> Yes. This is true for the 129X also. We have discussed 
> this in the past. The
> '129X manual may not mention this fact, but it IS a fact.
>
> BELOW signal frequency on the two highest bands.
>
> Ken Gordon W7EKB

     Thank you very much. I am taking the thing back out of 
its cabinet now to realign the top bands this way. It still 
does not address the BS calibration on 80 and 40 but perhaps 
I am expecting too much of it there.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com