[Boatanchors] Nuvistaplug

[Gary Pewitt]

At 06:03 PM 5/5/2009, Gary Pewitt wrote:
>It's pretty easy to find one of those Ameco Nuvistor Cascode preamps 
>at hamfests or even on the E place.  I got my first one from 
>Lafayette catalog in 1964 when I was stationed at RAF Croughten in 
>the English midlands.  I was only a SWL then and couldn't afford to 
>buy a Hammarlund HQ-180 which I lusted after.  So I got a National 
>NC-190 and an Evesdropper 5 band trap dipole strung up between the 
>two barracks on the base and had a fine time gathering QSL cards 
>from all over the place.  But the performance on the higher bands 
>was a bit lacking so I ordered  the pre amp and -wow- what a 
>difference.  I sold my 190 and the preamp for college money when I 
>got out of the Air Force and really missed it later.  So many years 
>later I got another 190 and just had to get the same antenna and 
>preamp.  I think they call the disease something like Nostalgia or 
>one of those medical terms.  You guys probably never suffered from 
>it right?  Heck I even got a Hammarlund HQ-180A from A.E.C. in 
>Milwaukee in 1976.  Mail order, new in the box, for $220.00 plus a 
>Hallicrafters S-38 trade in.  Still didn't cure me.  Any way the 190 
>and the pre amp work just as well as I remembered.  The decease got 
>worse though and I had so much fun SWLing that I went and got a ham 
>license.   Now I'm a total junky, the house is -full- of boatanchors 
>and even some of that sordid state stuff.  Not much I swear, just a 
>little.  And to think it all started  off with that little nuvistor box.
>73  Gary
>
>
>
>At 04:44 PM 5/4/2009, Drew P. wrote:
>
>
>>The Nuvistaplug is a plug-in module to replace pentode
>>type receiver RF amplifier tubes.  It uses a pair of
>>triode nuvistor tubes in a cascode configuration. It
>>is of most use above 15 MHz or so where atmospheric
>>noise is less and the lower noise figure of the triode
>>cascode circuit becomes an advantage.
>>
>>A web search for "nuvistaplug" will return more information.
>>
>>Drew
>>
>>
>>
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>Gary Pewitt  N9ZSV   garypewitt at centurytel.net  479 675 4376
>1500 French Prairie Rd. Booneville, Arkansas  72927
>Sturgeon's Law "Ninety percent of everything is crap."
>Pewitt's Law: But it's that other 10% that makes life worth living."

Gary Pewitt  N9ZSV   garypewitt at centurytel.net  479 675 4376
1500 French Prairie Rd. Booneville, Arkansas  72927
Sturgeon's Law "Ninety percent of everything is crap."
Pewitt's Law: But it's that other 10% that makes life worth living."