[Novice-Rigs] Really Stupid Question

[Bry Carling AF4K]

On 17 Jul 2015 at 7:20, weaselradio1 at yahoo.com [ameco wrote:

>is that good enough.
YES, Bob! I have done it that way for many years. The receiver will give you a nice 
side tone signal too, in order to minitor yoiur sending!

By the way, there are NO stupid questions. Welcome back to ham radio and I hope to 
work you on 7050 soon. I will be listening for KE0FAT!
 
> I am very new to this, so be patient with the stupid question.
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> I have a AMECO AC-1 I purchased for a weeks worth of lawn mowing jobs in 1978 (I was mowing 
> 3 lawns for $15/week). Until recently, I never attempted to transmit on it. Now that I have my Tech 
> License (my Novice license WA2MRX expired in 1980 without me ever going on the air) I would 
> like to get on the air. I have the AC-1 working and it appears to put out up to 10 Watts. My dipole 
> antenna seems to provide me with a very nice SWR (I built it for 7.050MHz). But since I have a 
> transmitter and a receiver sharing the same antenna through an antenna switch and my receiver 
> is a Hallicrafters S-40A, I'm not sure how to get tuned exactly on the same frequency that I 
> transmit on. I have tuned the receiver with the transmitter fed to a dummy load and the receiver 
> just picking up at its lowest sensitivity setting. I seem to be able to peak the signal around the 
> 7.050MHz I am transmitting on, but is that good enough. Is there a trick to getting the receiver 
> exactly on the transmit frequency.  Should I be looking at adding a preselector (or narrow bandpass 
> filter) on the receiver for better selectivity when I want to operate? Come on Elmer, I know you are 
> out there.
> Bob
> KE0FAT
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