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[Phillip Carpenter]

The best reference for adding a Q multiplier to a Command Set receiver is: "Using the Q Multiplier with Military Receivers", by Don Stoner, CQ February 1957, pages 60-64. Figure 5 on page 60 lists all the coils needed for each of the different IFs of all the Command Set receivers. The basis of the Q multiplier is a Heath QF-1 that uses a 12AX7. I may very well try this simple circuit on my BC receivers.

73s,

Phillip W4RTX

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> On Aug 10, 2015, at 8:35 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10 Aug 2015 at 17:52, Phillip Carpenter wrote:
>> 
>> See: "Transistorized Q Multiplier", QST January 1958. Uses a CK768 PNP junction
>> transistor (NTE100, 2N482, 2N309, 2N308).
>> 
>> Phillip
> 
> That's it. Thanks, Phillip.
> 
> One thing to remember about that circuit though, is that it uses "parallel" feed 
> of the DC to the transistor. My friend tried to use a modern 10 mH choke 
> there, and its "Q" was so high that the "Q" multiplier oscillated at something 
> like 10 KHz instead of 455 KHz. He had to go to a series DC feed, and that 
> fixed it.
> 
> He told me that in his RME-69, it works very well.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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