[Kenwood] Simple alignments.

Fri May 30 16:50:34 EDT 2014

UG!
I should have indicated the Rig in discussion is a Kenwood TS-430S
Sorry
Joe WB9SBD
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On 5/30/2014 3:38 PM, Joe wrote:
> I lost my bookmarks for these two things.
>> Thwey had to deal with alignments and balancing the rig.
>> One was to use WWV at a frequency as high as possible. you were to set 
> the readoit so it was dead on in display,
>> Then you listened to the tone of WWV and switch between USB and LSB 
> and the WWV tone shoud stay the same if it is correct if not there was 
> a simple cap to adjust till it was the same.
>> Then you would connect to say a dummy load and again switch between 
> LSB and USB listening to the background hisssss.
>> if it is the same great if not it showed two trimmer caps to adjust 
> till they were the same.
>> Does anyone here know where these three caps are?
>> And PS the resistor and 13.8 volts and runn through the pass band 
> filters cleaned up the totally dead and intermittently dead ones 
> fantastic. it's like a new radio now.
>> Joe WB9SBD