29-09-2017, 09:22 PM
Further to the above, I've now replaced the main smoothing capacitor (100uf 6v, which read something like 170uf on my cheapchinese tester, btw), with a modern 470u, 16v. capacitor. Checked the alignment, and all is now OK, except for the fact that on LW all I could receive was a weak signal from Five Live's 693kHz transmitter on 223kHz in approx. the correct position on the dial. This would have been at about 4PM this afternoon, so presumably 198Khz was off the air. The RT1 is n my workshop, and I don't have a set here at home with LW on it, so cannot cofirm this, but don't know of any fault which would allow a weak signal to be received, yet not the usually very strong Radio 4 LW Transmission.






