SR wrote:

Do you have a manual for your radio?

You can get a manual on-line for free...

Go to yahoo.com...then do a search for "BAMA"...go to that site...then
go to the "edibis" (sp?) mirror site --it is faster and allows more
users---then go to "Hammarlund"...then choose "HQ-170". At least for the
"C" model, this will give you the complete operators manual as an 82
page .pdf


The radio is very sensitive. And it has no speaker. I am using
a small speaker and sometimes headphones. Sometimes it can over
power the speaker and headphones

When I pick up a signal, say a voice, it does not sound as clear.
The sound need to be better clarified. Although I play around
with the buttons, and try to figure out how to better tune in a
signal.

The radio has no volume button, so I use the NOISE LIMITER button
and RF botton to adjust the volume acordingly.

There is a AF button but I am not sure what it does. When I
bring it up the signal get stronger.

The "AF" is the volume control. Use it. Put the RF control all the way
on. Turn off the noise limiter. Make sure that the "AVC" switch is *not*
in the "off" position (any other position of this switch will be OK to
get you started). Assuming no other problems with the radio (sort of a
big "assume" for a radio of this vintage that has not been restored),
this should go a long way to clearing up your distortion.

SPKR is this for 2 speakers or 1?

left screw is common/ground; Center screw is for 3-8 ohm speaker; right
screw is for 500 ohm "line out".

Also I notice a few holes in the back and inside a plasic you can
turn with a scew driver. Not sure what that is for.

One is for the S-meter "zero-set" Forgot what the other is for. Don't
mess with them until you get the manual.

Good luck...it's not a bad receiver.