[KD8EYY-Joe]

Terry,
Thanks a bunch for the reply.
Although I am a newbie to the EE side of things (I know what the wiper is) .
Just don't tell my boss that his hydraulics engineer is fooling around with EE stuff

Been playing around on 2m coming up on 5 years now.
Seem to have most my fun making and trying out antennas
Looking to knock out the general class exam in January
Thought there is no better way than practical experience
when it comes to learning the fundementals of electronics
So about 2 years ago my Dad handed me an old Murdock Neutrodyne
three dial and said have at it....Several chassis later
And a couple nice ones sitting in the dining room and I think I'm hooked!!!

I think I've found the problem with this one
In swapping out tubes one of the new 7A4's to replace the XXL was very unreadable
That along with one of the other loctals being the same way it would appear that they got switched! A little warm breath on the tube shows me they were indeed backwards

Feel real stupid...kind of like working on a car for hours down under it trying to figure out why it wont run only to pop the hood up top and see the carb is on upside down...
Sometimes starting with the obvious is really a good idea!!!

It appears to be picking up something on all three bands, so now I think its on to peaking it up a bit with the generator.

By the way the online schematic was so unreadable I was told to use the 41-280 schematic. It's close enough and far more readable, especially for the alignment portion.

Again...
Thanks a bunch!
73's