[R-390] Big Mistake Please Help

Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:26:31 -0500

Set the band and the tune digits to your favorite AM stations frequency (say
1240 or whatever).  Turn the PTO shaft by hand until you hear your station.
If you get all the way to one end with nothing head, go the other direction.
You will also hear the noise level peak up when you're more or less
synchronized.  Be careful not to turn it past its stops however.  It's no
big deal, I have to do this every time I open mine up.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Goode" <[email protected]>
To: "Ronnie Davis" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Big Mistake Please Help

> Ronnie,
>
> If it is any consolation, I made careful measurements of my PTO before I
> took it apart.  I took digital pictures of it.  I made marks on the shaft
> and housing.  Everything was done at 8 MHz.  After I put it all together,
IT
> WAS STILL WAY OFF!  So don't feel bad.
>
> If I remember correctly, the way I got it back on was to take my signal
> generator and find where the receiver was with the generator set very
high.
> Then I walked the PTO back to where it should be.  Sure made a big
> difference in sensitivity!  I guess you could also count the PTO with a
freq
> counter to get it back on.
>
> 73,
>
> Steve, K9NG
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ronnie Davis" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 4:48 PM
> Subject: [R-390] Big Mistake Please Help
>
>
> > Hello
> > Well all was going well with the Capehart R-390A until last night. I
> pulled
> > the RF Deck out to start working on it, and after cleaning for sometime,
I
> > remembered that I did not set the PTO to 8 Mhz before pulling the deck?
> > After I remembered that I just thought about messing up big time! I had
> > already been turning the Mhz change knob to clean the deck, and the
> > kilocycle change knob has also been turned for cleaning. So the problem
> is,
> > that I have no idea where the PTO was at when I pulled the RF Deck? I
knew
> > better than this, I knew from the manuals and the videos that I should
> have
> > put the PTO on 8 Mhz but while in the heat of working on it I just slam
> > forgot. Please tell me there is a way to find out where the PTO is so I
> can
> > install the RF Deck when I finished with it. Sure hope I did not mess up
> to
> > bad? Again a Stupid Beginners Mistake
> > Thanks again
> > Ronnie
> > KE4VPN
> >
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