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,



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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