[ARC5] QRP Ops

[Steve Miller]

Hue,
I was looking for a  Weskit BN-1 for years and decided to reproduce a clone from the schematic.
The transmitter worked but the receiver didn’t, so I switched to  6J6 dual triode and made a transmitter/Morgan regen receiver that works FB!
 There is a picture on my QRZ page.
I also love minimalist rigs. Amazing what you can work on a few watts.

73,
Steve WA3JJT




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On Nov 25, 2024, at 6:07 PM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:


A couple decades ago i read in some U.K. ham magazine about a fellow who was using, i think, a T-1154 with low plate voltage
that made it QRP. You can do this with any radio, really. May be grossly inefficient, considering the watts to heat the tubes, but you
can do it.
Not military, but i have a Weskit BN-1 Novice Radio, a one-tube transceiver which uses a single 3A5 tube on 80 and 40. The dial
resolution is not so great, it’s something like 5 MHz per tuning knob rotation. Downsizing – rightsizing is the name of my game
right now, but i hope to take it north to my brother’s place, put a wire way up in one of the tall trees, and see if Weskit’s claims
about long distance really ring true.
Another project i hanker to get to eventually, is a one-diode transceiver using a single tunnel diode. This would be QRPP.
-Hue Miller
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