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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi, gang,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Well, the Mohawk I’ve been working on is humming away on the bench. I decided to peak the 1682kc and 50kc IFs before really trying to tune stuff in. Good thing I did, because the rearmost 1682kc can was a fair way off and peaked up a lot, less so for the other three cans, although they did bring the calibrator signal on the S-Meter up. The two 50kc transformers also were off, but peaked up well. Nothing like component aging to change things around, eh?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Somewhere in the S-Meter Zero chain, there’s a fixed resistor which must be off the charts, because the Zero wirewound pot is all the way at one end at zero. I can easily get at the wirewound pot, and there’s a suspicious fixed ½-watter in there.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>So far, 80 and 40 seem to be pretty close and signals sound all right, although the IF gain needs to be backed off for the megawatters on 75 metres.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Does anybody have that elusive pair of preset trimmers marked “osc” and “mixer”, that are used to bend 20 metres to 10 metres for receiving WWV so the Calibrator can be zero-beated? I don’t have an accurate calibrator source to compare with. If someone has these, might I borrow them?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Once this guy’s going OK, the Marauder (ooof) is next…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>73,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Sandy AC1Y<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Alexander N. (Sandy) Gerli<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>'Corgi Cottage'<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>548 Allred Mill Road<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Mount Airy, NC 27030-2202<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>919-625-7181<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>A Scotsmen walks about 900 miles each year<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Scotsmen drink about 40 gallons of whisky each year<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Scotsmen get about 25 miles per gallon<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>