[Boatanchors] Has anyone here ever "built" a SP-600?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Postscript:	
	
Phil has heard some beacons that many thought only existed in radio mythology!
Now this man somehow retains his sanity while listening to three, and sometimes
more than three, NDB beacons all sending CW at the same time, some at different
speeds, all jumbled together, and manages to not only ID each one of them, but
enjoy doing it! See his partial list of beacons heard on the HCI web site. 	
	
Duane W8DBF	


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From: Philip Atchley <beaconeer at sbcglobal.net>
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Boatanchors] Has anyone here ever "built" a SP-600?
Date: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:28 PM

Hi,

Well, I'll be building a "custom" SP-600 from a (literal) basket case that a
gentleman brought over.  I mean, this thing is 'REALLY' a basket case.  Shiny
bare chassis with ONLY the power Xformer and two filter chokes mounted!!!  At 
least everything is nice and clean.

Normally, I'd say "forget it", but I'm looking at it as a challenge.  All the
major parts and hardware is there and it appears the only major item missing
is the S meter.  When he said he was bringing a "basket case" over I figured
some parts had probably been pulled for whatever reason. I never thought it
was going to be a totally homebrewed radio ;-)

Anyway, it'll be a "custom" job as I will put a product detector in it, and
probably use SS diodes for the bias supply etc.  I'm not going to try to
duplicate the
neat factory wiring harness though.  It'll be wired neatly, but I won't try to
duplicate everything exactly. At least the RF sub assembly with turret etc is
all intact (A JX-14 like this other one).

HOWEVER, this would be the time to consider the various options available to
the builder.  Anyone on the list have thoughts on things that Hammarlund
SHOULD have done differently in the design of a SP-600.  The RF deck appears
to be a JX-14 7 wire version, at least that's what the cover says.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
991 Different NDB's heard to date.
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