[Milsurplus] RS-6 on the air

[Jack Antonio]

Hi all

Just put my RS-6 set on the air, on 40 meters and worked the LA area from
Reno, on a dipole. Good sigs both ways, the other gent was running 100w
to my 10w out.

Couple of observations and questions.

I found the internal CW key kind of hard to use, and wound up plugging in the
regular station CW key. 

The dual section oil cap in the RA-6 only lasted about 30 minutes and then
spilled its guts, I had to replace it with an electrolytic.  The 5 uf single section
cap seems perfectly happy though. The original 6X4 in the power supply could
have shorted and taken the cap out, or the other way around. But either way,
with a new cap and 6X4 it seems OK now. 

The pops in the headphones on key up were pretty annoying and tended
to confuse me when sending, especially on a series of dits(like 7s, Vs and Hs)
Do other RR-6 receivers sound this way? 
I had to disconnect the headphones while transmitting.

My BFO injection seems light, I had to run the gain down quite a bit for a  clean
sounding note. Anyone else notice this on an RR-6?. 

I think my receiver does need some workbench TLC, there were some significant
gain variations, gain would drop slowly over a 15 to 20 second period and then
rise back to normal, almost like a tube filament that had opened, but never quite
actually quitting.

But all in all, quite fun. Anyone for a sked?  But I might have to cheat and use
the R-390A as a receiver till I figure out the RR-6 problems.

73

Jack Antonio WA7DIA
scr-287@sbcglobal.net