On Fri, 1 May 2009, Fred McKenzie wrote:


There is an article in an ARRL QRP handbook, that mentions the HW-9
having poor dial accuracy. I'm at the point where I'll probably go
ahead and carefully straighten the capacitor plate to see if it makes an
improvement. If not, I'll then take the approach you suggested to
re-bend the plate.

Remember, it was a relatively low cost rig. The money went into a fuller
design than the HW-7 with its direct conversion receiver (that nobody
seemed to like, since there were so many attempts at improving the
detector section). It was no SB-101 or HW-101, that from the start
was expected to have linear frequency readout. After a certain time,
people got used to that, but it wasn't the norm before that. A lot of
rigs didn't have particularly good dials anyway.

Michael VE2BVW