[MRCA] PRC-6 Battery/ Alignment

[B. Smith]

    Make sure you do not have the bias batteries hooked up backwards.
51.035 is off freq from target of 51.0  ??

Listen on a receiver to one half the frequency to see if you can hear 
anything.
51.0 divided by 2 = 25.5 Mc




On 12/26/2013 5:04 PM, n1jzv at midmaine.com wrote:
>   Breck says not to be a weenie and bring a PRC-68, be a man and carry
> around a PRC-6.  So I re-stuffed my old original battery with the same
> layout as his in the metal tray.  OK, so it fires up and on to alignment
> using a Fluke 177.  All the readings on the meter agree with what it's
> telling me to do so all seems good.  I attach my PRM-34 test set and I
> get 51.035Mhz and .5 watts power out.  Now on the the real test to
> communicate with another radio.  First thing I notice is no side tone so
> I tried it with my good H-33 handset, still no side tone.  So here is
> where I am at, I have very good receive, quieting on tx, power out on tx
> but no side tone or modulation.  I tried replacing V10 with a new tube
> and still no joy.  Pete is reading this saying I told you so, as he knows
> I have bought several of these with none working to date.  It has a neat
> paper folded up under the battery card when it was tested new from the
> factory.  So looking for any ideas on what to try next.
>
> Thanks
> Mark K1HF
>
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