[Heathkit] DX-100 Capacitor Question

[Glen Zook]

The name doesn't sound familiar.  If he wasn't at Heath in the 1959-1964 time frame then I definitely would not have met him.  I graduated from high school in June 1962 and the last trip I made to St. Joseph was during the summer of 1964.  Got married in Atlanta, Georgia, in June 1965 and after that only went back to northwestern Indiana for short visits.
 
Glen, K9STH


Website:  http://k9sth.com


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 From: Bry Carling <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
To: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>; L L bahr <pulsarxp at embarqmail.com>; Heathkit Reflector <heathkit at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] DX-100 Capacitor Question
 
Glen, did you ever meet my friend Jan Forman who was one of the "Hams At Heath", as they were called?
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Sent from my android "relatively smart" phone. Please excuse my brevity.

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From: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thu Apr 12 15:48:49 EDT 2012
To: L L bahr <pulsarxp at embarqmail.com>, Heathkit Reflector <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] DX-100 Capacitor Question


As I mentioned earlier, the 3 capacitors were changed to improve the grid drive on the 6146 tubes on the 10-meter band.  There was a short article in QST telling which capacitors were changed for those who had problems with low drive on 10-meters.

Heath did not make the voltage chart on the original DX-100 widely available.  When I was in high school, I had an original DX-100 and lived about 35-miles from the Heath plant in St. Joseph, Michigan (the mailing address was Benton Harbor but the actual plant was on Hilltop Road in St. Joseph), and used to drive up to the plant to "drool over" their latest kits (there was a sales/showroom just to the left as you went in the front door of the building).  If someone had a question about a product that Heath had produced the person in the showroom would telephone back to the engineering department and someone, often the lead engineer on the design team of the product, would come out and talk with you.  I usually left with a hand-drawn schematic and a bag with the parts to make the changes (no charge).  One one of these trips, I was given a one-page document with all of the voltages in the DX-100.  This was an "official" document but was not really
distributed outside of Heath.  I also got information on the various modification kits for the DX-100 and the DX-100B during various trips to St. Joseph.

That information is on my website at the following URL:

http://k9sth.com/uploads/Heathkit_DX-100_mods-1.pdf


Glen, K9STH


Website: http://k9sth.com


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From: L L bahr <pulsarxp at embarqmail.com>
To: Heathkit Reflector <heathkit at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] DX-100 Capacitor Question

Well, I pulled out a later DX-100B manual then the one I was looking at earlier and now noticed they made one later or third change in this area:

1st version (DX-100): blocking cap on pin 1 of the 5763 was a .001, no cap to ground on pin 8 of the 12BY7, and the blocking cap on pin 7 of the 12BY7 was 47 pf.

2nd version (Early DX-100B):  blocking cap on pin 1 of the 5763 was changed to 68 pf, a 150 pf cap to ground was added on pin 8 of the 12BY7, and the blocking cap on pin 7 of the 12BY7 was still 47 pf.

3rd version (Late DX-100B):  blocking cap on pin 1 of the 5763 was 68pf, there was a 150 pf cap to ground on pin 8 of the 12BY7, and the blocking cap on pin 7 of the 12BY7 was changed from 47 pf to 200 pf.

So when all was said and done there were three cap changes from the earliest to latest variant.  What is interesting is the late DX-100B manual also gives tube pin voltages and also lists R and C labels next to all the resistors and caps such as R1 and C1 and so forth.  The cap to ground on the 12BY7 is C32, the blocking cap on pin 7 of the 12BY7 is C37, and the blocking cap on pin 1 of the 5763 is C39
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