Updates and Changes

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Raising CW Plate- and Screen-Voltages

The reduction in High Voltage and Screen Voltage when using CW mode held back the 4CX1500B gain, and total-power. I was almost at the point of using the SSB setting for CW, when Chet VE3CFK pointed out...

That feeding both the primary wires from the front-panel-switch to the SSB connections on the transformer would give me a constant 3kV and raised Bias, no matter the mode. In fact, doing this means the only difference between SSB and CW is the negative grid-bias, and the resulting Class of operation.

The realization of Chet's suggestion: simply moving the CW-primary-power wire from Term #1 to Term #2, and similarly moving Term #6 to Term #5:

HV screen always at SSB.jpeg

Now I have good gain and total power! Thanks, Chet! Here's a view of comfortable operating conditions now, for CW:

Cw operation boosted HV screen.jpeg