[R-390] Deoxit

[John KA1XC]

I'll ditto Mikes's remark, the couple I've used in the past made it down to
450 KC or so.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mikea" <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
To: "JamesMiller" <jmiller1706@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: <R-390@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Deoxit


> On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:38:19PM -0500, JamesMiller wrote:
> > I have an 8640B with all except the low freq. option.  It doesn't go
below
> > 500 Khz now, and it would be real nice to have it go down to 455 khz to
do
> > IF deck alignments.  How hard is it to find a low freq. option and add
it to
> > an 8640B?
>
> As I remember, the HP designers _explicitly_ built the 8640B so that
> the real low end would be 455 KHz or a bit lower, just so it _could_
> be used for tweaking IF decks. I know mine goes down below 455 KHz:
> the low end is 447.8774 KHz this morning.
>
> Mine only has options 1, 2, and 3, and so there's no LF option
> involved. Maybe yours needs some retweaking, or to be looked at, or
> something? I certainly don't claim to be anything more than a user/
> operator when it comes to the 8640B.
>
> -- 
> Mike Andrews
> mikea@mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin