[Hammarlund] HQ-129-X Question

[Carl]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
To: <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>; <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] HQ-129-X Question


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


As Ive said before they should be right on. The only thing left off the top 
of the gray matter is the LO components and maybe a slipping dial.

Carl
KM1H