[Boatanchors] Halli HA-5 vfo to Millen 90800 transmitter

[rbethman]

John,

(You very fortunate person!  HA-5s are like the proverbial hen's tooth!)

Take the HA-5 output and use the Millen adapter box.  That is how the 
HA-5 connected to the Hallicrafters HT-4.

The only difference between the HT-4 and your Millen, is that the HT-4 
would have to plug in to which Tuning Unit for the desired band.

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to you and yours *and* the list!

Bob - N0DGN



On 12/26/2014 12:05 PM, John Saxon via Boatanchors wrote:
> Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2015 to all:
>
> This is John, K5ENQ, in Pearland, TX and I just acquired a Hallicrafters HA-5 vfo (in beautiful condition, thank you Pat).  Ready to hook it up to my Millen 90800 (6L6-807).  Not sure how to do it.  The osc in the Millen does not have one side of the xtal going to ground, but the xtal is between the cathode and grid of the 6L6 oscillator.  The cathode is above ground through a 200 ohm resistor.  The ground is made with keying.
> So...not sure how to feed the 6L6, as one side of the HA-5 output is ground, doesn't look to me like I can directly plug it in.   Out of curiosity I checked with info from the Millen 90711 vfo, which has one side of the ouput at gound, which seems to indicate a link is required to the transmitter unless going through the Millen adapter box, which permits direct plug-in to the xtal socket of the transmitter.
> I can think of a couple of approaches, but, as you can tell, I am not the expert you folks are.
> Any suggestions appreciated,73,JohnK5ENQ