[Drake] Rebuild Kits for the AC-4

[Brian Hunsaker]

See my previous email to all on this thread .. I was going to buy one 
of Mike's HP-23 kits and cut the board down as he described, in order 
to make it fit the AC-4 cabinet. Before he could send it to me, Mike 
contacted me and offered to do my AC-4 with a new board he was 
designing specially for the AC-4.  He needed an AC-4 for the project. 
He offered to modify mine for free (except for parts), if I allowed him 
to take it to Dayton for the show, and then he would send it back to me 
.. this is what we did, and I received my modified AC-4 back a few days 
after Mike had returned from Dayton.  My AC-4 is the first to be 
modified with this kit from Mike. Apparently he has now set up 
distributors, such as Jeff, who also cary the same kit.  It is a very 
good mod for your AC-4 whoever you buy it from.  The board was 
redesigned to fit the AC-4 cabinet, and was only a minor change, since 
the HP-23 board was just slightly too wide to fit the cabinet of the 
AC-4.   Mike just had to make a smaller board, and rearrange the 
components a bit ...
73,
de Brian, W5YE
"The Voice of South Texas"
www.w5ye.com
On Oct 2, 2004, at 7:02 PM, Thomas Beltran wrote:

>
> Are the kits offered by Jeff the same as the Heathkit shop mods?  I 
> first
> heard about the Heathkit shop's kit, which is for the Heath HP-23
> (apparently the circuits are essentially the same), and contacted 
> Mike.  As
> I recall, he said that his board did not fit on the Drake chassis, and 
> it
> would take some modification in order for it to fit properly.  Has this
> changed?  Or is the kit offered by Jeff different so that it does fit
> propertly.  Tom W6EIJ
>
>
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