[ARC5] "ARC-5" Market Value - It's Crazy

[Phillip Carpenter]

See: "Transistorized Q Multiplier", QST January 1958. Uses a CK768 PNP junction transistor (NTE100, 2N482, 2N309, 2N308).

Phillip

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> On Aug 10, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10 Aug 2015 at 14:46, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:
>> 
>> It's even more of a mystery if you ever tried to use those "stock" receivers in
>> a QSO!I'm going to have to cook up a tiny FET Q-multiplier to go inside the
>> radio...
> 
> Well, there are two problems with the receivers: 1) they are a bit broad. and 
> 2) I have NEVER liked that OE tuning knob. It has completely unacceptable 
> back-lash and although I have several of those and others like them I never 
> use them.
> 
> The broadness I have always been able to deal with, at least on CW, with the 
> wet filter between my ears, but that back-lash always pretty much killed me 
> until I began to use my own adapters.
> 
> As far as a "Q" Multiplier is concerned, the ARRL Handbook had a 
> single-transistor version a number of years ago. A friend recently built one for 
> use in his RME-69 and was quite pleased with it.
> 
> If you need a link to the thing, let me know and I'll share it with you.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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