Jeff / Ac4HF wrote:
> I would greatly appreciate suggestions before I proceed from those
> of you who have this rig built successfully.
Jeff - my suggestion is to build the rig without the RIT mod. Get it on
the air and make some QSOs with it. Get familiar with how it works for
you. That (*&&^% RIT mod caused me a LOT of grief, and many cuss words;
hope my cockatiel didn't memorize any of them!!!
RIT is nice, but for me it was not worth the effort. I guess I'm not a
perfectionist - I wanted to get the rig on the air and make contacts,
not spend my life ditzing around with a hosed circuit. In my case, the
RIT mod caused my transmitted frequency to be anywhere from 500 Hz up
to 2.8KHz away from the received frequency, depending on where in the
band the rig was tuned to. Mike / K1MG thinks perhaps it was because of
the long wire run I had to make from the RIT part of the board to the
RIT controls on the front panel. No easy way to resolve it, so I just
bagged the RIT mod and put the rig on the air. I have the TiCK and
the 5W (actually I get about 3.5W) mods installed, and it is fun to
use. The only thing I want to fiddle with now is a better tuning
control. I, like many others, have a POT that the first 25% of does
not tune anything - just mechanics for an on/off switch. My
problem is that its more fun to operate the rig than rip it apart and
mess with something that is already working!! :-)
73, Jim.
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Jim Bennett / W6JHB (jbennett@ebmud.com)
Supervising Systems Programmer
East Bay Municipal Utility District
Oakland, CA 94607
voice: 510.287.0224 / fax: 510.287.0373
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