Softer bite!

[N5AIT Allan Stephens]

It's done!

     You might recall the Lysco 600 with 450 volts on the key
from "repairs" and "modifications.  Over the last few days I finally
got it figured out (decided that I was NOT just going to pass it
along, a deathtrap waiting to close on the unwary).  Couple of
things included the discovery that there are two different RF wirings
for the Lysco 500/600 (and "S" models), and that the one I was
working with was the newer one - and I had the older schematic.

     That taken care of helped a bit, and re-doing the critter a la
the newer schematic got it up and going - with about 70 volts on
the key (grid block keying - one of the "changes" had been replacing
the dropping resistor across the key with a disc capacitor -
effectively presenting an open circuit to ground at that point).
Few other corrections, one new filter cap set-up, and voila!

     For a rig that first came out in 1950 it is an amazingly
stable one, and keying is chirpless (key all three stages,
oscillator, mult/buffer, final:  two 6AG7's to an 807).  All
bands 10 thru 160, good vfo (which can be used to "bend" xtals
when xtal control is selected), and with a little tweaking 30
watts out.  Two controls (not counting ON-OFF and VFO-XTAL
switches): VFO and plate tuning.  Simple, easy, works!

     So another rig restored, frying danger from key much
reduced, and a good mental challenge!

     73,  Al  N5AIT