Thanks Jim,
I should look for one.
I had an old Atlas 210x that I modified years ag0 and put into storage.
Took it out and nada!
It was a great little unit in its day :)
I built into it a cw side-tone and vox.
I guess when I get a chance, I should dig into it.
Anyway, I *** THINK *** I found at the problem.
I built a trifilar 1:1 balun as the front-end of my remote tuner
outside.
Tuning elements are on the load side of the balun.
Even with an swr below 2, I'm guessing it was saturating on 30.
I replaced it with some FB-73-2401 toroids over the shield ( W2DU type )
balun.
So far, sig reports are good. ( knock on wood )
30 meters is one of my favorite bands, so crossing my fingers that its
back. :)
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:25:41 -0600, "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon@msn.com>
said:
> Duane,
>
> An older receiver can be a good piece of test equipment if you have the
> room for it. The Drake 2B would be an excellent receiver to use to check
> your CW note if it has a crystal to cover the 30 meter band. There is
> also an ugly but apparently working Hammarlund HQ-129x on the e-place
> right now that will probably sell for peanuts because of its looks. It
> would certainly give you an accurate reading on the quality of your
> signal.
>
> Jim, W8KGI
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