[AMRadio] Search for a valiant

[Donald Chester]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Jerry Kidd <wa4jk at hughes.net> wrote:
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> I'm surching for a good solid valiant. I only need 100w plate mod'er. 
> Anyone have A good one close to Huntsville al. They want to part with. 
> Thanks Jerry kidd WA4JK Sent from my iPhone

<<Hi Jerry,

If you only  need 100 watts, I'd search for a DX-100, Viking 2 or Viking 1.
My initial preference would be for the V 1.

73

Rob
K5UJ>>

I second that.  The Valiant probably has the worst audio section of any of
the classic plate modulated AM ham rigs, except maybe for the Apache.  At
least  Apache audio can be cleaned up and I have heard a few that sounded
pretty good.  About the only way to get a Valiant to sound good and make
near 100% modulation is to completely re-work the audio section, or use an
outboard speech amplifier and modulator altogether.  The Valiant modulation
transformer has too much step-down, 6146s make notoriously bad modulator
tubes and the speech amplifier/driver stages are poorly designed.

Don k4kyv