[Boatanchors] reduce power on ranger

[Nick England]

FWIW - Here's a 2E26 Ranger that I picked up at a hamfest some years back
http://www.virhistory.com/ham/ranger.htm
I believe a club had converted it to be a Novice loaner (when did Novices
get VFO privileges?)
Besides stripping out the audio stages, they put in a 2E26 running off the
LV supply and with an extra cathode resistor.
Sorry I don't have any more details as I converted it back to stock.

Note on the PA cathode resistor - the Navy AN/FRT-17 that I just got back
on the air has a 4-400 PA with a rheostat in the filament xfmr center tap
to ground - for cranking back to 1/2 or 1/4 power as desired (ganged with
another rheostat in the 4-125 modulator filament circuit) - I'd never seen
that before.

Cheers,
Nick
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Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On 12/23/2013 04:31 PM, manualman at juno.com wrote:
>
>> Max plate voltage for the 2E26 is only 300 volts, so if do this, you need
>> to run the plate of the 2E26 off the low voltage supply. This arrangement
>> works fine.
>>
>> Pete, wa2cwa
>> http://www.manualman.com
>>
>>