[Boatanchors] 85 kHz transformers

[William Cromwell]

Hi,

Reading all of this fascinating stuff makes me rethink giving up up 
those cans. April fools! I have long since decided to give those up to 
the first person who asks. I can just about see the end of my road from 
here and other projects have higher priority. I *AM* interested in these 
projects and I hope the builders will keep us posted.

I have three of the "Q5er" receivers to play with and any of my projects 
will use those pretty much as-is. With two IF stages (three cans) they 
give a reasonable ssb passband. I will probably nest a (reversible) 
product detector inside one (solid state will accommodate that nicely) 
and put a converter for 160, 80, 60, and 40 (maybe 30)meters ahead of 
it. I have played at that before. From time to time there are "classic 
radio" operating events for legacy gear and I would like to have the 
Q5er paired with my Johnson Ranger or a homebrewed transmitter in one of 
those affairs.

By the way - the command receivers can successfully be operated from 
batteries. The heavy load is the heater strings and I use a 7 A-H lead 
acid battery for that. The B+ at 90 volts from a series string of 
transistor batteries gives good performance and lasts me several weeks 
of operation.

73,

Bill KU8H

bark less - wag more

On 11/19/22 09:13, Dave and Sharon Maples wrote:
> All: I got the pages together and put them into a single PDF (attached).  Thanks very much to Jeff for his capturing these!
>
> Thanks,
> Dave WB4FUR