Chuck Harris wrote:

[snip really, really good stuff]

OK, that is the official factory sanctioned alignment instruction for the
VFO. Before you do any of it, check with a freq. counter to see what the 2nd VFO
frequencies are at 1000KHz, and 0000KHz. If you are lucky, they will both be
off by the same amount in the the same direction. If this is true, you just
need to slip the capacitor's shaft coupling. Don't go nuts on tightening the
set screw, it only needs to be snug.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried the BFO check position to see if your
BFO tuning knob is really at zero when its pointer shows zero? The BFO can
tune +/-15KHz.

Thanks _very_ much. Now I have a handle on getting my 6217E tweaked back
into shape. It would be really good if I could come by a set of the cables
for all the finicky little modules.

Mine's just Really Deaf over most bands, but works sort-of OK on 7 MHz.
I haven't ripped into it, as much out of laziness as out of fear-and-
trembling. I would like to get it going one of these days.

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Mike Andrews W5EGO 5WPM
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