[Hammarlund] SP600 Antenna Input

[Wes Bolin]

Hi Al
Thanks for the info. I do have a "Chinese" tester that says all of them have more capacitance ie. .03 uF or so (new ones read very close to the
correct value).  None were split or leaking. This radio was kept in a pretty good environment evidently, over the years.  At any rate the work
will be worth it in the long run to replace them all.
Good success to you,
Wes
 

________________________________
 From: Al Parker <anchor at ec.rr.com>
To: Wes Bolin <k5apl at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "hammarlund at mailman.qth.net" <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Monday, March 4, 2013 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] SP600  Antenna Input
  
hi Wes,
    I agree, getting some signal thru that connection is surprising.  Maybe it'll hear much better after you get it right.
    But, on the BBOD's, don't take your VTVM's word for them being good. If you put a little voltage across them, I'll guarantee you'll have a lot more bad.  It just finds the shorted ones.  The 5 megohm one is bad, and really any that measure any resistance at all probably are, too.  I have a AC powered bench megger that I use to check caps, usually the BBOD's show maybe 5 megs at less 50 vdc, but much less than a meg at 250v & up.  I can go up to about 800vdc on that tester.
    How many had splits in them?  I did an SP-600 RF deck a while back that had about 15 with splits.
73,

Al, W8UT
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On 3/4/2013 5:03 PM, Wes Bolin wrote:
> I am restoring my SP600 JX26 and just pulled the RF Deck for re-capping.  J1, the antenna input jack, is a N-F connector (not twinax).  Upon
> inspection of the RF compartment, both leads from Contact 5 and Contact 6 are going to the center pin of the RF connector!  Looks to me like
> all the turret input coils would be shorted since the "usual" mod would be to have one lead to center pin, and the other to ground.
> Even more puzzling is that the radio played very well before I started the restoration.
> Any comments or ideas?
> FYI this radio had only one defective BBOD so far:  A .01 uF that is open.  All other capacitors that I have replaced to date have between 5 and
> 200 Meg ohms of resistance measured by my 11 Meg input V.T.V.M.  Now only have 20 to go!
> Thanks,
> Wes
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