[Boatanchors] Alex's Gorgeous 1938 Transmitter

[AI2Q]

Thank you for your kind observations Scott.

The lil rock-bound rig really doesn't chirp at all, although that is a function of whether the tuning is on the "slow" or the "fast" side of the plate current curve. Remember, when rock-bound rigs came into fashion one of the things they were noted for was crisp keying.

Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex 
http://users.adelphia.net/~alexmm/ai2q.htm

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Freeberg, Scott (STP) 
  To: AI2Q ; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:46 AM
  Subject: RE: [Boatanchors] Alex's Gorgeous 1938 Transmitter


  Wow, what a gorgeous looking 1938 transmitter Alex!!!! I must be having some kind of parallax type problem when I look at the two photo's of the top and bottom.  The chassis appears much wider in the bottom photo than the top photo, depth vs width.  Either its my eyes (which it is), or you have discovered a way to make much more volume inside the chassis than outside the chassis :))))))))

  Beautiful construction job.  Yes I agree, the glass 6L6 looks much nicer to me than a metal sleeve 6L6, and the ST style 80 looks nicer than a newer sleeve style 80.  Probably the most dramatic example of tube beauty was when I fired up my Johnson Valiant 1 for the first time and those 866 mercury vapor rectifiers were glowing bright blue.  Gorgeous.

  How much chirp to you experience. Noting that its a single stage your loading likely has a mega effect on it.   Has the 6L6 been hard on crystals?

  73, Scott WA9WFA