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Originally Posted by Skylark UK
I have a Trio TS830S which has been in my loft since the late 1980s. I’ve recently connected it to mains power and a basic antenna and the receiver works well.
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I use a TS830S routinely on the air but always wind it up on a variac (2 secs 0-240V) to avoid the switch-on 'thump'. If you have connected to the mains and switched on without any smells, smoke or explosions, that indicates that the HT smoothing capacitors and other HV electrolytics are OK.
Make sure that you are familiar with adjusting drive and then tuning (dipping) and loading the PA output pi-tank. The 'Tune' position enables you to take your time on this operation - do not attempt on full-power CW. The RF speech processor is especially effective and the output audio quality can be monitored on headphones. Join the .io group as suggested elsewhere.
Peter G3PIJ