[Boatanchors] [BoatAnchors] BC-375: STABLE AM QSO on 7160 KC

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Sun Feb 1 18:16:05 EST 2015


I have (somewhere) a box full of NOS replacement plate chokes for T-47 or 
T-47A/ART-13.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 02/01/2015 13:23:26 PM Central Standard Time, 
boatanchors at theporch.com writes: 
> The big problem was finding something good to use
> for a plate choke, since I don't have a "normal" one.
> This point can carry as much as 100 mA, so one of
> the chokes like those used in the grid circuit will cook-off
> in a hurry.  I tried winding an RF choke on a ferrite 
> "noise" toroid core, but the core material overheated
> quickly.  I finally used a big Detector coil salvaged
> from a dead RAK receiver and shoe-horned it into
> the room in the rear of the tuning drawer.
> It works fine.
> Can you suggest a better plate choke?


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