[R-390] A few SP-600 questions

[Roy Morgan]

At 01:02 PM 7/5/2004 -0700, Jack Antonio wrote:
>The universe decided I needed an SP-600-JX-17,

Lucky.

>  disc ceramics instead of BBOD caps,

Very, Very Lucky.

>  it seems to work pretty decently.

Good for you.

>Is the stock power plug a readily available item?

(I'm not familiar with that part - my SP-600's all have line cords going in 
through grommets as far as I know.)  Please replace what's there with a 
three wire grounded line cord.. AND:  move the tap on the power transformer 
to the higher voltage tap.  (The SP-600 is unusual in that it has this.)

>How stable should the local oscillator  be on 6 meters?

Not at all stable. Forget any stability on 6 meters.

>  SSB would be impossible to tune,
>the short term stability is just too bad.  Is this normal, or
>do I have a problem to solve?

No problem. Just get an R-390 and use a crystal controlled converter down 
to 7 or 14 mc.

>Is the stock antenna connector supposed to be an
>SO-239?  Mine looks like it has been replaced.

Normally they were two-conductor, SO-239-like connectors for twin coaxial 
cable. Many of them have been changed to SO-239's or BNC's.

>Tried to see if there is an SP-600 group on qth.net, but
>that page is loading super slowly today.

There is a Hammarlund list:

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Roy

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