[Johnson] Valiant II poor plate dip / power output on 40, 20, 15m

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In a message dated 5/12/02 18:29:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dsmaples@comcast.net writes:

> Drive appears to be adequate both with the VFO
>  and with two 40m crystals I had, so I am a little puzzled as to what might
>  be the problem.  I was able to get an adequate plate dip and reasonable
>  output on 10m, though.
>  


Dave,

Just a thought here.  Have you checked the loading caps?  I don't own a 
Valiant, but in my Viking II and my Courier Amp, I found more than one of 
these that was more of a resistor than a cap.  In fact, in my Courier three 
were not able to handle over 50v before showing bad.  They would even show up 
on a Simpson 260 so the leakage was evident.  When replaced, the rigs tuned 
pretty much as the original manuals suggested.  Mileages may vary here, but 
might be worth checking.

73 de W4MIL
Chuck