"bpnjensen" wrote in message
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I'd love to - but, frankly, I'm a dunce when it comes to things
mechanical or electrical! I've ruined a lot more stuff than I've
repaired, and a lot more than I care to mention. I'm not very
technically dextrous, even when my understanding is intact.

Bruce "Allthumbs" Jensen


Weren't you experimenting with crystal radios a year or two ago? Generally,
repair is easier than homebrew.

Nearly all single conversion superhets align using the same simple
procedures. I think the DX-160 service manual is online, and the ARRL
handbooks have some good straightforward alignment instructions.

You can even do excellent alignments without a signal generator, if you have
digital readout receiver to read the radio's local oscillator frequency.

However, the radio may be aligned about as well as it can be. Generally,
the dial readout is exactly correct at two or three points on the dial, at
best. There are usually areas in which the dial readout doesn't perfectly
track with the received frequency probably because the tuning capacitor/
coils don't exactly match the prototype they developed the original dial
from.

Anyway, if you want to give it a try, I'm sure you can get some help here.

Frank Dresser