Thread: Zenith T/O H500
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Old 11-01-2018, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by zombie1210 View Post
I came across this real nice Zenith Transoceanic H500 yesterday.

I love these things.

Cabinet is in great condition.

The selenium rectifier has been replaced with a diode and dropping resistor, all caps and resistors have been replaced except for the mica caps. The 1L6 has been replaced with a loctal 1LC6 and adapter

The antenna is straight, and locks into place.

Have you realigned you radio since you replaced the 1L6 with the 1LC6 and adapter?

I found that when I replaced the 1L6 on my L600 with the Locktal tube, the longer leads on the adapter and/or the metal base of the 1LA6 caused the alignment to shift, and I had to tweak the coils a bit. Worked quite well, though on the highest band (16m/17Mhz), I couldn't tune the oscillator to match the dial. I simply aligned that band to 200kHz off calibration, and remember to add add the 200kHz to the display when using 16m (sadly, very rare now, in the solar "millennial minimum").
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