[Boatanchors] Ranger 1 on the air

[Richard Knoppow]

    But having to fix things to make them work is part of the charm of 
old stuff. If it worked right off the bat where would the fun be?
    When I first went on the air a neighbor, maybe a block away, had a 
Ranger, sounded fine. At the time I knew and talked to at least two or 
three hams who lived within walking distance. Times have changed as they 
say.
    Congratulations. These are actually pretty good transmitters.

On 10/11/2023 12:13 PM, Lawrence Godek wrote:
> After cleaning up the top side of the ranger, replacing 3 dead tubes, 
> one was a 1614 but i have spares, i fired it up on 40M first into a 
> dummy load.
> 
> I get 50W out on CW and that seems about right as it's only a 75W input 
> transmitter so my 6146 final must be good.  All the dial settings are 
> pretty close to what the manual calls for and i get a good 2.5 ma of 
> grid drive.
> 
> I'm pretty happy with my purchase even though it called for some work to 
> clean it up and finding the bad tubes.  sounds good on CW as i didn't 
> hear any clicks or chirps.
> 
> Now to rig up a Mic and see how the 40W or so sounds.
> 
> Larry W0OGH
>
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
SKCC 19998