[Johnson] Viking II

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Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:10:15 EDT


Thanks for replies about my problem with the modified II. I also have another 
Viking II that I am going  to start on instead, saving the modified chopped 
one for later. The current rig works, but has a few "old age" problems. The 
plate idle current drifts up and down and the rig "chirps" on CW. I am going 
to start to replace the caps first. It has been awhile since I have done this 
and am a little out of touch.(XYL says REALLY out there with these old 
radios) Anyway, when I last worked on heavy iron, common nomenclature was 
"kilocycle" and "micro-farad". Well, you get the pic. What are the current 
accepted capacior types to replace the old paper/wax NON electrolytics?? 
Orange drops??? What about the bigger electros?? What are good sources for 
this stuff?? I looked on Mouser pages but no pics, and so many different 
kinds of caps available now I am lost. Help please......Al/W8FAX