[Kenwood] Basic alignment. TS-430S

[Clif]

Did you do the alignment "by the book"?


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:

> Now where is that adjustment made. do not see it,
>
> Joe WB9SBD
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> On 6/13/2014 2:02 PM, Don Sanders wrote:
>
>> Sounds like the CW offset osc is not set for 700 Hz offset.
>>
>> Doin W4BWS
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Joe <nss at mwt.net <mailto:nss at mwt.net>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Ok,
>>
>>     I did a basic alignment this afternoon on my TS-430S.
>>
>>     Old age and all that. but was very simple three trimmer caps.
>>
>>     I knew the pair that control how the IF passband is balanced was
>>     off.  USB and LSB had very different background hiss sounds one
>>     was all bassy and the other hissy.
>>
>>     and the narrow SSB filter was useless unless you adjusted the if
>>     shift control way over.  but now nice and balanced no difference
>>     between USB and LSB even with the narrow filter.. It's nice to be
>>     able to use that ya know?
>>
>>     Now I knew I was always off a little on freq,  and I found how to
>>     adjust it. at least a video about it. here,,
>>
>>     http://youtu.be/U56M9Bm-QL0
>>
>>     at a little past the 1 hour and 11 minute point.
>>
>>     and I did it and it was easy and WWV was awesome on all freqs
>>     except 2.5 today. so I did that adjustment it indeed was still a
>>     little off. I made it exatly the same. and even checked on all of
>>     them 5, 10, 15, 20 & 25 Mhz no difference at all,
>>
>>     So closed the rig back up and still the same.
>>
>>     Now I went on 30 meters and threw out a CQ,  the dial reading, at
>>     10.115
>>
>>     But all the stations that heard  me on the RBN showed me as baing
>>     on 10.114.7 It all says i'm 300 hz low.
>>
>>     What do I do?
>>
>>     Joe WB9SBD
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