[Hammarlund] SP600 Perormance

[Joe Connor]

Wes:

"Cleaner" is a perfect description. That is what I experienced when I changed out the caps in mine. You're right. It IS hard to quantify or describe but it is definitely there.

                           Joe Connor





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> From: Wes Bolin <k5apl at yahoo.com>
>To: "hammarlund at mailman.qth.net" <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net> 
>Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:57 PM
>Subject: [Hammarlund] SP600 Perormance
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>Thanks for comments Stanley and Joe.  An alignment will be a near future project after I get tired of just playing it.  And, I do see a change
>in performance with the new caps. The signals are 'cleaner'--hard to describe or quantify but they just sound better. I can easily hear now the
>distortion of many SW stations for example. I have sworn there would be no performance improvement before I made the changes, but I
>was wrong.  And yesterday I decided to tune up to 6 Meters, and I heard stations via an opening with my 70 foot single wire antenna.  Also
>all of the tube shields were taken off and could hear no difference.  Will run like this for a while since its hard to find IERC shields. Its still
>a work in progress, but getting closer to the finish line.
>Wes
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