[Clegg] Venus, if you will

[manualman]

Not a unique idea Bob. The Venus I picked up back in the 90's  has a
mosfet preamp wired in. Of course, if the preamp was added shortly after
the Venus was originally acquired  back in the 60's, the nusvistor the
hottest thing around at that time for hams. Nuvistor converter and preamp
designs were all over the place. A solar minimum occurred around 1964
(Venus entered the marketplace I believe in 1964), so everyone was
looking for that extra db of gain to pull the signals out of the noise.

Nicely engineered, but having to diddle with the transmit offset control
on the rear panel and hope you didn't accidently move it at some later
time, was a pain.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:55:58 -0500 Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net>
writes:
> Thought I'd blow the cobwebs out of the Clegg list....
> 
> I've been restoring two Venus six meter transceivers and wonder if 
> anyone here has any knowledge of a mod to the receiver to add a 
> second 
> nuvistor RF amp.   It was done so well I didn't realize at first it 
> was 
> a mod, but it really makes the receiver HOT!    Any other comments 
> would 
> be welcome, what a nicely engineered piece of gear the Venus is!
> 
> 73, Bob W9RAN