[Boatanchors] Q-5'er info wanted

[manualman@juno.com]

QST, Jan. 1948, page 40, Lazy Man's Q5-ER
CQ, Jan. 1956, page 14, Novice Q5-ER
CQ. Jun. 1956, page 14, Feedback to the Jan. 1956 article

Pete, WA2CWA

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:52:42 -0700 solo22@sbcglobal.net writes:
> Many years ago, *many*, we novices being very broke,  built a very 
> special converter.  It appeared in  QST or CQ magazine.  It used a 
> broadcast variable capacitor and various crystals to convert novice 
> ham 
> band segments to 200-550 kc.  A 6800kc crystal would convert the 
> whole 
> 40 mtr band down to a frequency that a Command Set (BC453)  could 
> tune.  
> This was one "damn good!" receiver, and for CW,  would run along 
> with 
> any commercial ham receiver of the day.  My question is...can anyone 
> 
> provide me information on what issue of what magazine, this was in?  
> I 
> still have  a like new  BC453 and would love  to rebuild my  old  
> novice 
> receiver.

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