[Boatanchors] reduce power on ranger

[Bill Cromwell]

On 12/23/2013 07:36 PM, Nick England wrote:
> 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
> ================
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
>
Hi Nick,

I suppose the reason I didn't resort to installing a 2E26 in my Ranger 
is because that control over on the left can dial it down under a watt 
in it's stock configuration <evil grin>. I ran it as my QRP transmitter 
until it finally puked from sheer old age. If I live long enough I'll go 
through it and fix the ills.

Meanwhile I'm so tired of trying to keep my old crap working I am just 
going to build a brand new transmitter or transmitters with all new 
parts so I can get on the air between repair jobs on the old rigs. I'm 
not so tired of them as to wanna scrap them.

73,

Bill  KU8H