Re: Everything comes to he who waits.... Eddystone EA12.
A bit of good news - despite being missing a few mechanical parts I took the plunge and powered it up gradually over the space of 12 hours to full mains voltage.
A quick test on 160M showed that it recieves ok and has good sensitivity of at least -115dBm.
I've not made any definitive measurements yet as it could do with a good re-alignment and a few cans of switch cleaner but at least it works to some extent and is not DOA.
The underside looks un touched apart from the noise limiter pre-set pot having been replaced with a fixed resistor.
Interestingly while the pre-selector triple gang variable capacitor looks original a small section of the back plate chassis has been removed to make it fit. edit looking at photo's of other rx's I'm pretty sure it's been replaced at sometime in the past.
Now the hunt begins for the missing bits - in the meantime as suggested I'll convert the mains inlet to an IEC C6.
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Last edited by g4wim_tim; 8th Dec 2021 at 10:33 pm.
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