[Boatanchors] Anyone Using a Navigator on 20 Meters?

[Bob Groh]

Yes, sir, you need to build yourself a nice retro power amplifier. Time to
dig through the old handbooks, QST's, 73's, Ham Radio's, etc for something
neat. Or maybe find a nice  Central Electronics 600L (my 'Elmer' had one
and I loved that old amp!).

73
Bob Groh, WA2CKY

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Whitebear1122 <whitebear1122 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Curious if anyone is using a Johnson Navigator on 20m.   Do you have
> chirp?  After sitting on the shelf for many (!) years I fired up the
> Navigator, replaced the 6146, cleaned an intermittent switch, replaced the
> dual fused AC plug with a nice 3 wire grounded plug and added an inline
> fuse.
>
> Sounds good on 80 meters, found it chirpy on 20 meters.   Too chirpy to
> take it out for a spin with a CQ.
>
> That Navigator is the cutest little thing but I admit the 20 some watts
> output is too QRP for me.  It’s begging for a little 811 amp or even 2just
> a couple of 6146’s like the Valiant.  The Valiant has been my main AM/CW BA
> rig since 1995 and is perfect for cw and AM, but that Navigator is so darn
> cute :)
>
> 73, Scott WA9WFA
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