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G6Tanuki · 26th Dec 2020, 7:00 pm

I had 'overload issues' with the AGC on "Steady Eddy", my 840A bedside radio - which after much annoyance turned out to be one of those 'rat-turd' capacitors buried deep within the coil-box as part of the RF amp control-grid feed, which had decided to forget about doing the capacitance-thing and had re-identified as a 70KOhm resistor.

See them, replace them. They're not to be trusted.

26th Dec 2020, 7:00 pm	#2
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 13,998	Re: Eddystone 750 BFO Trouble I had 'overload issues' with the AGC on "Steady Eddy", my 840A bedside radio - which after much annoyance turned out to be one of those 'rat-turd' capacitors buried deep within the coil-box as part of the RF amp control-grid feed, which had decided to forget about doing the capacitance-thing and had re-identified as a 70KOhm resistor. See them, replace them. They're not to be trusted.