Well, it did. I did as I said and the problem was cured. Hey... I didn't
believe it either! It made no sense. It isn't the first time I've seen weird
things happen that beat theory or logic. I've stopped believing that what
most say can't happen - won't. But why I went to the VFO was due to the
"tuning dropping out - the way it was happening". Just made me think to look
there first - lucky hunch maybe, but it paid off. CL

"Ray" wrote in message
news:f5v1c.470449$na.1112911@attbi_s04...
CL wrote:
I had a HW 101, sold it to my brother, to get a Kenwood TS440 S-AT.
While
I'm not going to say the Kenwood is a bad radio, it isn't.. I love the
audio
of the "tube" rigs. The glow and so on, seems to add a bit of nostalgia.
As
soon as I get a chance, I'm going to buy another HW 101 to put back on
my
desk.

FWIW - here is a cure I came across once with my HW101. After warm up,
as
the set was being used, the bands (all of them) would drop out starting
at
the low end of the dial. Since I operated mostly on 10 meters, it took
time
for it to get to that frequency from the low end, to drop out. The first
time it dropped out, I had no clue why. I turned it off, it cooled down,
set
was ok til warmed up again. I checked all the bands to find out what all
was
going on. I figured it had to be in the VFO. I took the VFO cage off and
there was a resistor just barely touching the chassis with it's lead. I
bent
it away from the chassis and that cured the problem. It's kind of weird
how
or why it happened and when. I bought the rig used and used it for a
year
before that started. It wasn't bumped around alot either, as I kept it
on my
desk. Weird...... CL

I can't figure how a problem in the VFO would cause that. The VFO tunes
the same frequencies for all bands. The conversion is made to the
various bands by mixing with crystal controlled local oscillators.