Restoration Projects

The Homemade Drake Power Supply A good friend has just past onto me an old home-made power supply for Drake equipment, along with the …

The Drake T-4X Transmitter Restoration and Repair Project The Drake T-4X is an HF amateur band transmitter covering 80 through 10 meters. Four additional crystal sockets …

The Drake R-4C kindly given to me by Douglas Dodd (GD3RFK) This is one of those great little projects that fills in the days …

KW Vanguard Face Plate Removal and Other Metalwork OK, this is where I kind of mess up a bit, but I will still show …

Removing the Meters, VFO Display and Lamp Holder from the KW Vanguard The next job on the easy scale of things is to remove …

Remove the Switch Fixings from the KW Vanguard Now that all the knobs have been removed I removed all of the nuts and washers …

KW Vanguard’s Control Knobs So that’s the right hand slide of the unit sorted, now lets look at the left hand side starting with …

Dismantling the front panel on the KW Vanguard The first job on the block is to start to clean all the knobs and switches …

KW Vanguard needs some thinking about first! I decided that I would read through some very well written notes that I was sent by …

KW Electronics – The KW Vanguard Radio Restoration An historic name in the world of Amateur Radio was Rowley Shears G8KW, who established KW …