Heathkit SW-717 receiver
Hi, everyone,
I picked up a Heathkit short wave transistorized radio, model SW-717, "series no" 08731, at a garage sale this W/E - not working well, some reception on BC bands but low sensitivity. I put a few low level sig. gen. RF signals on the antenna terminal, from 1 MHz to about 12 MHz but reception spotty and not to dial scale. My guess is that it is 1970's vintage, perhaps a bit before. It has 9 transistors (2 power types); no integrated circuits; cannot find any IFT's (very odd!) but there are a total of 7 unshielded coils on the PCB. It has a 2 gang tuning capacitor with one gang of lower capacitance than the other with 10 plates vs. 11, about 390/500 pF in size - suggests an oscillator to me, i.e. not a TRF set. I've not yet done a full forensics yet in case I can save time by looking at the schematic. Will pay for copying and mailing costs for a manual, or the original, or would appreciate even just a scan of schematic by email to: 'surfnews "at" sprint "dot" ca' suitably written, of course.. All info on this model will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks for all replies, Cheers, Roger |
"Engineer" wrote in message ... My guess is that it is 1970's vintage, perhaps a bit before. Circa '74 It has 9 transistors (2 power types); no integrated circuits; cannot find any IFT's (very odd!) but there are a total of 7 unshielded coils on the PCB. It has a 2 gang tuning capacitor with one gang of lower capacitance than the other with 10 plates vs. 11, about 390/500 pF in size - suggests an oscillator to me, i.e. not a TRF set. It was a simple superhet. I think the IFT's may've been little ceramic types? It's *so* long ago... Front end was a 40673 MOSFET. The audio quality of the rx was very nice, but of course meant selectivity was poor. Also the AGC was pathetic, it overloaded very easily. The audio stage was prone to microphony, a damping cicruit across the speaker helps. HTH Gary |
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message ... "Engineer" wrote in message ... My guess is that it is 1970's vintage, perhaps a bit before. Circa '74 It has 9 transistors (2 power types); no integrated circuits; cannot find any IFT's (very odd!) but there are a total of 7 unshielded coils on the PCB. It has a 2 gang tuning capacitor with one gang of lower capacitance than the other with 10 plates vs. 11, about 390/500 pF in size - suggests an oscillator to me, i.e. not a TRF set. It was a simple superhet. I think the IFT's may've been little ceramic types? It's *so* long ago... Front end was a 40673 MOSFET. The audio quality of the rx was very nice, but of course meant selectivity was poor. Also the AGC was pathetic, it overloaded very easily. The audio stage was prone to microphony, a damping cicruit across the speaker helps. HTH Gary Many thanks, Gary. I'll see what I can do with it. Cheers, Roger |
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