[Lowfer] LWBC QRN

[Michael Sapp]

Hi All: Dex wrote.....

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Dexter McIntyre W4DEX
<dexter.mc at gmail.com>wrote:

> QRN has LWBC wiped out but is noticeable lower than on last several
> evenings.

    Work and tax forms kept me MIA much of last week, but I managed to pry another classic LW receiver from ebay that was listed as "not working".......


a Drake SW4A....."not working" turned out to be what looked like green cadmium oxide on the pins of the tubes and sockets. A good cleaning of those components brought the radio back to life.  So I'm perhaps 25 percent through a clean up and then an alignment, but the initial testing on the LW band was promising....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jPzIrU5HS4


    This radio has an excellent preselector, as I am located under 5 miles west of the local 1020 kHz 50KW station, yet no trace of AM intermod on LW when using my EWE antenna and feeding the SW4A with a 9:1 transformer and a separate RF  isolation transformer......even with the EWE in the NE position....

    A fews after snagging the Drake, this little National NC-57M gem was acquired.  It may be a few weeks or more before I this one gets back into service, but physically & mechanically it looks good...

http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag19/wa3tts/IMG_2841_zpsbe4fe7e6.jpg

http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag19/wa3tts/IMG_2842_zps817704b0.jpg


    Good to be able to play with some classic radio toys I could not afford when I was a kid......and more likely to better appreciate them today.

  73,  Mike wa3tts