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[@bahramsoroush2228]

Thanks for the update Jim ,

[@mikeinmontana8875]

Quite a process Jim! Your system produces the best we've ever seen... We keep track of Buzz 1151 too. Thanks for the update~ Meat and potatoes sometimes just needs to wait a bit. Excellent video. Not boring at all. . We're supposed to be at or near 100 again today in SW MT. A lot of forest fire smoke with this heat. Local 'news' said 95 percent human caused forest fires. Little to NO lightning or precip at all this last 4 weeks or so. Many of the fire starts are said to be arson. Gee...wonder why? NO excuse...... Try to stay as cool as you can! Not easy right now. 🤝

[@PracticallyFixed]

Thanks for the overview of your process. Good luck with the Knight.

[@mickeyfixsen7579]

Hope you get the lens covers soon.

[@PracticallyFixed]

Jim, let me see if this makes it better or worse... have still been thinking about the Knight issue. I think the dial itself maybe part of the clue. If you look at the schematic on the left side it shows the tuning range of the radio in both broadcast and shortwave.
Broadcast is from 540 - 1720 kc; Shortwave is 5.2 - 18.3 mc.
Since you removed the pointer it needs to go back on in a particular place on the shaft. So what I think you did, which should normally be just fine, is you fully meshed the banana slicer and then set the pointer to be at the far left side of the dial. But look at both the original dial and the new one. It is not possible for the pointer to point to both 540kc and 5.2mc at the same time - right? Now maybe that means the dial is physically wrong and it would never align both scales. But here is a thought...
I am just guessing here...but look at the other end of the dial. This is where the needle needs to point at both 1720 kc and 18.3 mc at the same time. Here at the high end it looks possible for the needle to be set correctly for each scale in one position.
Perhaps if you reset the needle with the slicer fully open instead of meshed, and the needle set at the high end of the dial (1720kc and 18.3mc) instead of the low end, and then re-set the three oscillator caps it might do better? Just an idea for you; I do not really know, just a guess. [That theory is totally blown if when you turn the dial as it is now to the high side, the slicer fully opens to the stop at the point the needle points at the high side of the scale, which it probably does.]
(Since the shortwave does not have a padder, that scale will always have more error in it somewhere on the scale than the broadcast band which does have a padder. In that case, if you wanted a particular frequency to be the most accurate you could just set the osc for that dial position, such as 10mc for WWV using your freq gen. As you know, the cap for the shortwave oscillator should not be loose but tightened up some where the capacitance changes.)
Good luck as always.
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