Howdy Folks,
Well the Sierra is coming along nicely. A quick call to
Bob at Wilderness Radio helped me clarify a few things
(my manual is one of the older ones), and as a bonus he
told me where to find the best pizza in the world - right
here in the Phoenix valley even. Now *that's* service. :-)
Thanks Bob!
Anyway, it passed the smoke test and is putting out a
clean 3 watts on 40m. Only snag is that it's a bit deaf.
ScQRPion Dan (N7VE) was helping me trace through it last
night - RF gain control has no effect and unplugging the
antenna doesn't reduce the noise. But hey, at least I know
where to look now. :-)
So any of you Sierra builders have words of wisdom for me?
I've gone through the band module "tweaking" process twice
now, with similar results. I've backed off the AGC, the AF
gain works fine, sidetone sounds good, output is clean and
aligned with the rcvr, etc. Just kinda deaf.
Thanks in advance! Back to the multimeter....
Cheers de AB7TT,
-Joe, vole@primenet.com, AZ ScQRPions (Phoenix)
"QRP, Unix, MST3K and Babylon 5 - the Four Pillars of Nerdvana" -Me
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