[ARC5] BC-230 on 40 and 30 Meters: Now Good to Go

[Ben Hall]

Hi Dave,

Most excellent on the progress with the 230!  I did get mine cranked up 
a little bit this afternoon after rewiring my 6AQ5's to be cathode to 
pin 4.  Into my "phantom antenna" it was getting near 0.8 amps RF out 
per the front panel RF current meter.

I also tested my 9:1 unun into a 50 ohm load.  The set hated it.  Very 
little RF current and lots of B+ draw.  :(

On 1/25/2015 6:09 PM, David Stinson wrote:
> The Osc coil is unchanged and runs at 5MC.
> The leaf springs that held the Ant.tap broke on the PA/Ant. coil.
> Unless you have some way to work exotic spring metal,
> that pretty-much finishes a coil.
> So I re-wound it to resonate at 10 MC and it works great.
> Good use for what was a useless coil.
> I will write details about that if anyone actually cares.

I'd like to hear the details.  I bought a box of junk of the e-place 
that included a couple of BC-230 coils.  One was *missing* the springs, 
the little wheel, and the bar that goes between the springs.  :(  I 
don't recall what frequency range it was for.

Thanks much and 73,
ben, kd5byb