{"id":8656,"date":"2020-08-18T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/08\/18\/wu2ds-tr-3-mike-refurbishes-a-nice-old-drake-transceiver-part-1-video\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T01:47:00","slug":"wu2ds-tr-3-mike-refurbishes-a-nice-old-drake-transceiver-part-1-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/08\/18\/wu2ds-tr-3-mike-refurbishes-a-nice-old-drake-transceiver-part-1-video\/","title":{"rendered":"WU2D&#8217;s TR-3 &#8212; Mike Refurbishes a Nice Old Drake Transceiver (PART 1) (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xZQOJycZew0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>There is a lot of Tribal Knowledge in this video. And good discussion of the many moral issues faced by those of us who work on old gear. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>&#8212; Mike seems apologetic about his blatant and blasphemous spray painting of the Drake copper chassis. As well he should be. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>&#8212; His stubborn replacement of the tube socket (to allow for shielding) seems wildly reckless to me. The Radio Gods may retaliate with some unexpected instability in that circuit. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>&#8212; He CORRECTLY refers to the rewiring of the final circuity (to accomodate 6146s) as &#8220;the evil thing.&#8221; Indeed. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>&#8212; I love in the beginning how he is listening to some ham radio chatter and the guy is talking about the selection of COM PORTS. With old radios &#8220;we don&#8217;t have COM PORTS &#8212; we have an antenna connector.&#8221; Well put Mike. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>&#8212; I was struck by how much the TR-3 innards look like my 2-B receiver. But the TR-3 has no dial strings. That is a major technological improvement. And it has a PTO. Was this a case of Collins envy?<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>&#8212; Mike adds a useful word to the lexicon: &#8220;shotgunning&#8221; &#8212; the indiscriminate replacement of entire categories of parts in old radios. Now I don&#8217;t mind shotgunning the electrolytics (some people bitterly oppose this). But I agree with Mike on the wisdom of keeping the paper caps in there. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I am looking forward to Part II. These videos are like &#8220;This Old House&#8221; but instead &#8220;This Old Rig.&#8221; <\/b><b>And I will go back and look at Mike&#8217;s video on the Power Supply refurb. Thanks Mike. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of Tribal Knowledge in this video. And good discussion of the many moral issues faced by those of us who work on old gear. &#8212; Mike seems apologetic about his blatant and blasphemous spray painting of the Drake copper chassis. As well he should be. &#8212; His stubborn replacement of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/08\/18\/wu2ds-tr-3-mike-refurbishes-a-nice-old-drake-transceiver-part-1-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WU2D&#8217;s TR-3 &#8212; Mike Refurbishes a Nice Old Drake Transceiver (PART 1) (Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,100,25,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drake-2b","category-old-radio","category-troubleshooting","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656","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=8656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}