[Clegg] Venus, if you will

[Carl]

The one thing I remember about the Venus in the 60's was the drift. A few of 
the locals with $$ bought them and werent very happy with support from 
Clegg.

Back then I used a CE 10A driving a HB 6J6, 6AQ5, 815 TX converter from 20M 
into a converted NCL-2000 which I still use with a modified HA-6.

A HB 6DS4, 417A, 6EA8 RX converter into a 75A4 took care of that end. I 
still have both.

I use a Zeus and Interceptor B on AM and the receiver is HOT as Todd has 
mentioned. The Zeus is so stable Ive used it many times in SSB-AM QSO's with 
many not even realizing I was on AM.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "manualman" <manualman at juno.com>
To: <clegg at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Clegg] Venus, if you will


> 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
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