[ARC5] Solid State Conversion of a BC-779

[Hubert Miller]

I looked for the '73 Magazine' number with the article,  "Receiver Hot-Rodding
Hints", but my copy is hiding. In this article, the author thoroughly decoupled all 
the IF LCs from DC, by copious use of RF chokes. I thought the article explained 
that DC levels led to detuning, not loss of Q. I thought the author actually went
too far. Isolating the grid from the tuned circuit is not going to cut down on 
Miller-effect capacitance unless the coupling capacitor is quite small, on the small
scale as the effect capacitance. There was a before - after graph offered and I 
considered it tantalizing but practically useless, as no numbers were attached to 
the frequency axis. I recall the graph did have a very noticeable unsymmetric 
aspect and I thought that was interesting also.
-Hue Miller