{"id":3702,"date":"2024-04-05T06:13:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2024-04-27T05:54:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T10:54:24","slug":"th-hw-8-is-in-the-shack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3702","title":{"rendered":"The HW-8 is in the shack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HW-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3706 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HW-8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HW-8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HW-8.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>The HW-8 arrived at ~19:15 local time last night.\u00a0 It was well packed and in very good physical condition.\u00a0 The first step was to put Anderson Powerpoles on the power leads.\u00a0 Next was to turn the HW-8 on and see how my WWII headphones worked after being on the shelf unused for over 55 years.\u00a0 They worked like a charm!\u00a0 So far, I only tried the little radio on 40 meters.\u00a0 I listened and had a POTA contact with a park in Texas.\u00a0 All I noted so far is (only on 40 meters):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The received is hot.<\/li>\n<li>The dial is a lot more off frequency than the seller said it was.<\/li>\n<li>The meter pins when tuning for peak output.\u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 The pinning is the result of a cold solder joint on R303 in the meter circuit.<\/li>\n<li>My power meter shows an output of 2 watts.<\/li>\n<li>Most concerning is a low-level signal just above the tuned frequency being generated in receive.\u00a0 It was detected on the P3 when testing the radio into a dummy load.\u00a0 It was not seen when the HW-8 was transmitting into the antenna.\u00a0 The signal may be too weak to be detected when the K3 is not on the antenna.\u00a0 Further research is required.\u00a0 <strong>Note<\/strong>: This signal is not being transmitted over the air.\u00a0 Also, it appears this is normal internal generated RF.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HW-8 arrived at ~19:15 local time last night.\u00a0 It was well packed and in very good physical condition.\u00a0 The first step was to put Anderson Powerpoles on the power leads.\u00a0 Next was to turn the HW-8 on and see how my WWII headphones worked after being on the shelf unused for over 55 years.\u00a0\u2026 <a class='read-more' href='https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3702'>Continue Reading &lsquo;The HW-8 is in the shack&rsquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hw-8","category-projects","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}