HQ-110A Manual Mistake

[K3ZS]

I picked up an HQ-110A from a widow the other day.   I made sure it lit up and made noise in the headphones.    I found that it seemed completely unaligned.     Started to tweak the piston cap for the oscillator on 80M and the frequency of the test signal didn't change at all.  I eventually found that the manual had all of the trimmers labeled all backwards in the manual.    The poor guy who had the receiver must have tried to align it using the manual.    It is the top-looking-down diagram of all the trimmers and coil slug adjustments and is in the 1962 Hammarlund  HQ-110A manual.   It looks like the engineers and tech writers didn't communicate.    It now works fine, looks like the last guy didn't mess with the IF or RF alignment.

[W1EUJ]

We should write an engineering change order for that.

[Carl WA1KPD]

Make sure Hammarlund follows an ISO process for that!

Carl

/KPD

[WU2D]

Hold it - this may be an ITAR issue. Frank - issue an RMA and have it checked by the facility security officer.

The manuals and documentation on some of the older ham gear is "quaint" to say the least. Some looks hand typed. the Globe stuff is awesome.

Mike WU2D