Success! I followed all the groups suggestions and now have a working horn driver. The idea of using the shims to center the vane while soldering the...
Hey Gang, The 40-meter band is full of FB signals, SSB & CW --- I'm calling CQ on 7290-KHz, which is amazingly clear for a change, but all I get are the mic...
Ed Swynar
gswynar@...
Jun 4, 2006 12:45 pm
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Hang in there Eddy, someone will eventually show up. Saturday and Sunday mornings are usually active times for 40 meter AM. If I had the power supply repaired...
Hi Gary, You were right! I just finished a FB QSO with Dave, W9AD --- wall-to-wall 59 signal! ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ PS: Seriously contemplating the...
Ed Swynar
gswynar@...
Jun 4, 2006 1:33 pm
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9:30 Hrd the W9 sign off, but not a whisper of Eddy...not even a carrier. Is Welcome to the Novice Rigs List! a web site? If so, adr. pse. Louis ... From: Ed...
Well, all you sleepy-headed, post-Saturday-night frolicking, so-called "die hard" AM'ers are probably missing the absolute BEST propagation on 40-meters that...
Ed Swynar
gswynar@...
Jun 4, 2006 1:55 pm
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Listening to WA3VJB on 7.288 MHz right now with a FB signal. He might not be on there much longer because his wife just called over the intercom saying she...
Hi Eddie! Ah, I remember folks on 7290 k/c as well! Unfortunately, I'm on the West coast now, and stuck in a location that's very hostile to Ham operation. ...
Hrd you but was on the way to church,, S9+ into York Pa. FM19 what was the rig/power Bob K3DJC On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:32:58 -0400 "Louis Vermond"...
riese-k3djc@...
Jun 4, 2006 5:16 pm
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Hi Bob, A SWL report is better than no report at all, I guess! Hi Hi Rig here was/is a Johnson Viking II "C-C" (continuous coverage, built for the Royal...
Ed Swynar
gswynar@...
Jun 4, 2006 6:23 pm
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have to do it in the AM portion of a IC 756 the other rig is a HW bandmaster barefoot but there is the Kenwood 922 hmmmm couple hundred watts AM linear HAR Bob...
riese-k3djc@...
Jun 4, 2006 8:08 pm
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I'm looking for a very special knob. They were used on Leutz superhets. They are made up from a General Radio main knob and a 4" metal dial skirt installed by...
Thanks, Paul. Ironically, I work only 2 miles from where RadioActity is being held, but will not be able to break away! >> If you don't sell the console, let...
Alan McCormick
Alan_McCormick@...
Jun 5, 2006 11:33 am
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Does anyone have a current email address for Richard Estes? His AOL address does not work. Ron Radio Collection Web Page, http://www.radioheaven.homestead.com ...
Good Morning All, I think I may well have stumbled upon yet another application for the good ol' automatic dishwasher in the kitchen...CLEANING BLACK,...
Ed Swynar
gswynar@...
Jun 10, 2006 10:29 am
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Good Afternoon All, I keep being drawn back to Bob Raide's (W2ZM) article on Heising modulation, as was featured in the January 2005 issue of the AWA's...
Ed Swynar
gswynar@...
Jun 11, 2006 7:05 pm
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Eddy, I have an interstage transformer for a Johson Ranger or Valiant for sale here. It is a new Hammond unit and I think might be 3:1 ratio. Let me check and...
Brian Carling
bcarling@...
Jun 11, 2006 7:24 pm
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actually a 25 to 125 volt transformar should work. Or other AC transformers if you can find a 30 / 40 volt to 125 shouldnt be critical. Many years ago I hooked...
riese-k3djc@...
Jun 11, 2006 7:26 pm
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Looking for volume control/thumbwheel for a National FB-7. Can pay or trade! Thanks for your help John -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by...
john
johnmb@...
Jun 11, 2006 11:24 pm
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Hi Bob, Many thanks for the tip --- but I think I may have what I need heading my way shortly... ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ... From: <riese-k3djc@...> To:...
Ed Swynar
gswynar@...
Jun 12, 2006 10:10 pm
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Go to www.tubesandmore.com They have interstage transformers. You can buy hole ones or just the cores and use the old case. Theese are brand new. Dave N2TJQ ...
I have posted a couple of links to photos of a plug used to connect the power supply to the radio chassis on an early Simplex Electric AC set. There are no...
Yes, I have seen plugs like that and had some. I am almost certain that the domed shell is just screwed on to the thread part of the piece where the pins are....
In a message dated 6/13/2006 16:50:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Hi Dave, That is a new one to me, but it looks like if you carefully pushed that little...
w4awm@...
Jun 13, 2006 9:01 pm
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I have just recently bought an AK model 20 and would like to know which model speakers will work with it. I would also like to know if it is possible to buy an...
Any of the AK horns (R,H,L,M,G) plus the E series cone speakers, (E, E2, E3) would be correct for the AK 20. Antique Electronics Supply has a power supply kit ...
As Ron says, any AK horn (or anybody else's '20s horn or cone) will work. The impedance of these old-timers is "a few thousand" ohms and uncritical. Or, a...
Ludwell Sibley
tubelore@...
Jun 15, 2006 2:08 am
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I am restoring an early AC set that uses a gaseous rectifier (Majestic OA) which I assume is similar to the BH and the rectifier used in the AK "B" Power Unit....
I recently acquired an HBR-13C homebrew receiver. The HBR-13C was described in QST magazine 1965, a 13 tube superhetrodyne receiver, that anyone with (and...
Hi Dave, I think you're right on the money! In HF RF, typical bypass capacitor values are .01 uF to .1 uF. As you're dealing with a BC band radio (MF), I'd...
