{"id":3606,"date":"2020-06-04T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/04\/no-main-tuning-reduction-drives-in-stock-drake-2-bs-but-why-no-mod-articles\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:45:47","slug":"no-main-tuning-reduction-drives-in-stock-drake-2-bs-but-why-no-mod-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/04\/no-main-tuning-reduction-drives-in-stock-drake-2-bs-but-why-no-mod-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"No Main-Tuning Reduction Drives in Stock Drake 2-Bs — But why no mod articles?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alan Wolke W2AEW and I were recently discussing our Drake 2-Bs (again!). Both of our receivers have reduction drives between the main tuning control and the string mechanism that moves the main tuning capacitor. I wondered if these were the results of modifications by previous 2-B owners. I vaguely recall that my Elmer — Hilmar WB2NEC — had done this sort of mod. <\/b><\/div>\n

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OM Wouter ZS1KE sent me this very illuminating photo of the inside of his Drake 2-B. No reduction drive. So Alan and I obviously have modified 2-Bs.<\/b><\/div>\n

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One thing that puzzles me: I can’t seem to find a single article that describes this apparently common mod. Does anyone know of an article in the ham magazines that might have described how to do this? <\/b><\/div>\n

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Thanks again Wouter! <\/b><\/div>\n

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Alan Wolke W2AEW and I were recently discussing our Drake 2-Bs (again!). Both of our receivers have reduction drives between the main tuning control and the string mechanism that moves the main tuning capacitor. I wondered if these were the results of modifications by previous 2-B owners. I vaguely recall that my Elmer — Hilmar … Continue reading “No Main-Tuning Reduction Drives in Stock Drake 2-Bs — But why no mod articles?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,63,100,276,101,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drake-2b","category-magazines","category-old-radio","category-south-africa","category-tubes","category-wolke-alan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}