"John D" wrote in message
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I recently aquired a nice RME 4350 receiver. I cleaned a lot of dust &
dirt
out of it. Cleaned & relubed the vernier tuning knob(some of the balls are
missing), tightened some slipping shaft couplings, put a drop of oil on
just
about everything that moves, powered it up very slowly with a variac. It
seems to work fine except the BFO seems weak. The RG gain has to be
reduced
a lot and the AF gain has to be high to tune any SSB or CW with the INJ
knob
on max. I swapped the tube and no differance. It doesn't seem right to me
but I just don't have enough experiance SSB/CW receivers to know. You can
get a good strong audio from a AM signal but the SSB/CW is wimpy. Is this
normal for this radio?
John

Hi John,
The SX-88 I worked on was similar, at least as far as having to reduce the
RF gain in order to make CW sound right. I checked everything and then read
the manual- which said to reduce the RF gain for CW! However, in SSB
position, CW sounded great w/o the need to reduce the RF gain.

Dale W4OP