[Milsurplus] RS-6 on the air

Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:56:30 -0500

Howdy all,

    Does anyone have any schematics/manuals/etc for the RS-6 they'd be
willing to copy?  I've still got mine in a box awaiting restoration (and
time without honey-do's).  I'd be happy to pay costs, time, and shipping. I
found the web site with scans of the cards, but the resolution isn't enough
to make out.

                THX/BDH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Antonio" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 2:14 PM
Subject: [Milsurplus] RS-6 on the air

> 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
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
>
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