09-27-2015, 10:24 AM
Good tip on the LO thing! Thanks on that.
Yes, I have an good antenna and ground to copper water pipes I use with my other radios in the workshop. I did adjust the sensitivity control and that is working great but as mentioned 1370 is ROCKING loud and 800 is about 60% of that and both usually are equal strength. If I can get the entire band to sound normal compared to what 1370 usually sounds like this will be a great little radio.
Now obviously not sure what the LO was so set it at 450 which is where it seemed to be set with my signal gen but that probably does not mean much. As well, I did not have a proper alignment tool and use a metal 1/4 drive which swamped out the first two adjustments. So...I need to get the right LO and realign with a insulated too which I am making today and see what happens.
BTW Jeep plant is still here, my father was a Material Handling Engineer for Jeep. Started at AMC in Kenosha in `68 and then transferred to Jeep in `82 when AMC went under, he retired just a couple years back. I have many friends and family that still work for Jeep. Right now Jeep is owned by Fiat who are total A-holes and constantly threaten moving production someplace else unless The City of Toledo (us) gives them free land, tax breaks and a list of other demands despite a state of the art plant that is less then 20 years old. It never ends and constant threat and annoyance. Toledo is Jeep and vice verse but the rotating list of foreign owners never give D**n about anything like that. Toledo is doing great but would probably turn into Detroit of Jeep left.
BTW thanks for the help!
T
Yes, I have an good antenna and ground to copper water pipes I use with my other radios in the workshop. I did adjust the sensitivity control and that is working great but as mentioned 1370 is ROCKING loud and 800 is about 60% of that and both usually are equal strength. If I can get the entire band to sound normal compared to what 1370 usually sounds like this will be a great little radio.
Now obviously not sure what the LO was so set it at 450 which is where it seemed to be set with my signal gen but that probably does not mean much. As well, I did not have a proper alignment tool and use a metal 1/4 drive which swamped out the first two adjustments. So...I need to get the right LO and realign with a insulated too which I am making today and see what happens.
BTW Jeep plant is still here, my father was a Material Handling Engineer for Jeep. Started at AMC in Kenosha in `68 and then transferred to Jeep in `82 when AMC went under, he retired just a couple years back. I have many friends and family that still work for Jeep. Right now Jeep is owned by Fiat who are total A-holes and constantly threaten moving production someplace else unless The City of Toledo (us) gives them free land, tax breaks and a list of other demands despite a state of the art plant that is less then 20 years old. It never ends and constant threat and annoyance. Toledo is Jeep and vice verse but the rotating list of foreign owners never give D**n about anything like that. Toledo is doing great but would probably turn into Detroit of Jeep left.
BTW thanks for the help!
T
