[R-390] PTO

[ka9egw at britewerkz.com]

The saga continues...it goes without saying the rf deck is now horribly out
of alignment.  I can get the rx to hear my sig/gen on the antenna input, but
that's about it.

Lacking access to a freq counter, but having a decent sandstate general
coverage rx, [a Rat Shack DX390 which is possibly too sensitive for this
use] how do I go about telling where the pto is really at?  I've got more
than my share of intermod and spurious mixing products and can blank the
receiver 50 times when tuned through 10 turns starting at the
counterclocksise.  [When I say 'stop' I mean that point where the resistance
of the bare pto shaft to my bare fingers just starts to increase marginally,
I am being very careful not to run the pto past it's physical limits...]

Assuming I'm at the full CCW stop on the pto, where should it be?  It's a
Collins PTO FWIW.

I won't even go into my planned 'someday' change to the Cosmos I have on teh
shelf...

Any help would be appreciated.

73 de KA9EGW