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PT-6 antenna
bridkarl
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08-03-2024, 01:35 PM
I’ve been fussing over this PT-6 and am at my wits end. I think I’ve somehow disconnected the antenna. Or I have a bad tube. That seems unlikely however as since this is an AA5 design a bad tube would kill the radio. I have filament voltage in everything. I’ll check over the tubes tomorrow. 

I replaced all the caps, radio powers up. I get some buzzing when I move the tuning cap through a rotation at one particular position. I just think I have the antenna hooked up wrong or something on the tuning cap. 

I checked over all the wiring which seems correct.
I connected one side of the antenna to the aerial transformer and the other side to the tuning cap. 

I just don’t get the buzzing noise at one place.


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PT-6 antenna - by bridkarl - 08-03-2024, 01:35 PM
RE: PT-6 antenna - by RodB - 08-03-2024, 01:58 PM
RE: PT-6 antenna - by bridkarl - 08-04-2024, 09:46 AM
462ron - by 462ron - 08-05-2024, 08:04 AM
RE: PT-6 antenna - by bridkarl - 08-06-2024, 08:53 PM
RE: PT-6 antenna - by MrFixr55 - 08-08-2024, 09:37 PM



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