[Heathkit] Nobody Has Answers?

[peter markavage]

I checked back to see what you stated in your earlier email. You say the
mike works: wired correctly and PTT works fine. But, do you know if the
mike cartridge is good?

Pete, wa2cwa

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:57:15 -0500 "James M. Walker"
<chejmw at acsu.buffalo.edu> writes:
> Well,
> I will give it a shot, my memory isn't what it once was, Several
> questions
> first however. Do you have a manual for the HW-202, because I can't
> remember
> where the deviation control is located. Find the deviation pot and 
> set
> it
> to center of travel and try the rig again. If you get audio then, 
> you
> want
> a distant station to talk you to the proper setting for the 
> deviation.
> 
> Careful when going through some repeaters as if it is set too wide 
> the
> repeater will start to chop, and you could cause interference to 
> others
> as
> well. The microphone if it is working feed to a small audio amp and 
> then
> to a varicap diode and the pot set the amount of deviation by 
> setting
> the
> voltage to the varicap.
> 
> YMMV
> Jim
> WB2FCN
> 
> 
> "Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF" wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Frankly, I am surprised that not a single one of the nearly six 
> hundred wizards
> > of wire who populate this list had a single bit of advice or a 
> single suggestion
> > to assist me with the HW-202 two meter transceiver with a carrier 
> but no
> > modulation.
> > 
> > So do I bury it or?
> > 
> > DBF