At 06:01 AM 1/5/98 -0600, you wrote:
>To the group,
>
> It has been brought to my attention that my OHR 100a exhibits some
>drifting of its frequency.
> To check it out I turned on the radio and recorded its frequency and
>then just kept an eye on it for quite a while.
>Freq. Time.
>10114.9 1:49pm
>10115.9 2:01pm
>10116.1 2:04pm
>10116.4 2:09pm
>10116.5 2:11pm
>10116.6 2:15pm
>10116.7 2:19pm
>10116.9 2:35pm
>10117.0 2:40pm
>10117.1 2:50pm
>10117.2 3:14pm
>10117.3 3:25pm
>10117.3 4:00pm
>
> As you can see it finally settled down on its own. My question is this:
>Should I just let it warm up each day or go ahead and use it and hope that
>the heat generated by the use causes it to settle down sooner?
> Another question might be, does the radio have an actual problem or is
>this amount of drift normal?
I have the same 'problem' with my OHR Classic dual-bander. I just turn it on
about 30 minutes before use, and let it go. Settles down nicely, and drift
is not a problem any longer.
73,
Bob KI7MN (ki7mn@dancris.com) Chandler, AZ
Grid DM43bi Lat 33.334500 Long -111.87260
NorCal #1221 ARCI #8918 Qrp-l #271 CQC #274 AK QRP #30 ARRL
http://www.dancris.com/~ki7mn
WIMPS: QSO's=19 30=19 17=0 12=0 States=15/0/0 DX 0/0/0 QSL's=6
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