So this morning I hear that the solar flux is up around 190 and the higher bands are coming back to life. I turn to my trusty Drake 2-B and turn the band switch from “40” (where it has been parked for quite some time) to “E.” E is the position that kicks in the 22 MHz overtone crystal on the 6U8 local oscillator. I eagerly turn the pre-selector to the area where the 17 meter band used to appear and… nothing. Nada. Silence. No band noise. Nothing. <\/p>\n
I thought the 6U8 might be going a bit soft. I swapped it out. The problem remains. I twisted that E band coil from one end to the other. Nothing. I cleaned the bandswitch contacts. No joy. Now I’m thinking it is the 22 MHz crystal. But its kind of strange for a crystal to just suddenly go bad… It worked before. The receiver is working on all the other bands, so the problem is really that the oscillator just won’t go on 22 MHz.<\/p>\n
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