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I'm sure the box works great but the tubes are a mounted a little close together for good air flow to them. But that is what happens when you have it "all in one". Outboarding the HV supply (plate transformer, rectifiers, and caps) will let you "line" them up and provide cooling enough for all...
Isn't there also an AC/DC switch on the back of the radio? If it doesn't operate off of AC or DC I would suspect the power on/off switch to start with. There were also some issues with the alarm and snooze options that can cause this.
The Shooting Star was a remnant of Wilson Antenna that Maco bought out years ago. Maco continued to produce the antenna until they closed the doors. It is basically the same design as a Moonraker 4 without the hubs for element mounting. If I remember correctly the element spacing and lengths...
Yep. If you outboard the power supply and filament you have plenty room to work with and to provide adequate cooling from top and bottom. I like the way some of the John Boy 3 tubers are laid out with air sockets and chimneys. Not all are this way that I have seen though.
The cover on the back will come in handy to keep all the 6 volt batteries out of the weather. That along with a few 300 amp Leece's will feed a hungry amp.
The power supply upgrade and the PD transformer are very good additions to a SB220, especially if you are going to use it on AM. Hopefully you got the beefed up transformer as it is well worth the extra bucks! The single stock transformer is not quite enough for two tubes but two stock...
This sure would look good attached to a set of Browning radios....
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Has the meter worked properly since you have owned the radio? With the meter deflecting to the left on key up I wonder if the wires to it have been reversed at some time like someone else suggested. Of course the lower the noise level on receive, the higher the meter would be showing to the...
One thing for sure is that the StarGun antenna was the first antenna that was produced modular. Long before everyone started to copy the manner in which Troy was assembling them. Troy started making them in the late '60s to early '70s, in a time when 108" whips were the standard. Yes, 108"...
You will have to have a signal generator and freq counter to do the alignment. You really can't do it without them. That may be why you don't have any receive and the xmit went away. You can get by on some other radios without them but on this one you really can't.
Hopefully you didn't try...
Does the radio work on SSB? One thing about the radio is that the low, mid, high is not power settings but frequencies. The low is 40 channels below the regular 40, mid is the regular 40 CB channels, and the high setting is 40 channels above channel 40.
Do you have a wattmeter? You need to...
I will tell the folks down here that have done extensive testing with the same antenna and the only changes they have made were changing the position of the gamma. They are the ones that did it and I have witnessed the effect first hand but like I said have never done it myself.
I like to have...
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