[AMRadio] The Viking II is FINALLY starting to work

[sbjohnston at aol.com]

>If I do have to replace the resistors, is the wire gauge,
>and number of turns for the chokes, critical?

I haven't found it to be critical.  I generally use the solid tinned 
wire that radio shack sells on a small white reel, wrapped three or so 
times around a 2-watt carbon resistor.  The resistor is usually 47-ohm 
or thereabouts.

No I wasn't on the AM net.  At 9:30 CT I checked into WB9GKZ's classic 
SSB net on 3840 kHz with my KW Electronics KW-2000B transceiver.  I 
tried to use it last week too but it needed fixin' before it was 
reliable enough for actual use.

Steve WD8DAS

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I'm hoping it's as simple as that (they looked kind of ratty, when I 
pulled
the plate caps to do plate to grid checks).  If I do have to replace the
resistors, is the wire gauge, and number of turns for the chokes, 
critical?

73,
Ellen - AF9J

P.S. - were you on yesterday morning's net?  Condx. sure were kind of 
weird
to Rob, WA9ZTY.  I checked in with the mighty Scout 680, easily, and Rob
took a nosedive into the noise 10 minutes later.  Go figure.

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Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] The Viking II is FINALLY starting to work


>
> Yes, the final could have gone into parasitics and the suppressor
> resistors had to work hard and released some smoke.  Fortunately they
> are very easy to make...
>
> Steve WD8DAS
>
> sbjohnston at aol.com
> http://www.wd8das.net/
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