[ForSale-Swap] Vintage 416B 2m Converter For Sale

[Bob Kocisko]

Cleaning out the shack in preparation for moving to my retirement home in AZ.  Have a vintage (1960's era) 2m converter for sale.  It uses a 416B planar triode in the front end that for that era was state of the art with abt a 3dB NF.  I'm also including 3 extra 416B's.  Other tubes used include 2 ea 6BC4's & 2 ea 6U8A's along with a built in pwr supply using a 6X4W & regulator tube.  Pwr supply is putting out both 108 & 150 VDC along w/  filament voltage.

I purchased the converter used in the late 1960's & mounted it on a 5.25 x 19" rack panel with a vy nice Triplett 0-75ma panel meter.  It tunes 144-148MHz using a 14-18MHz IF.  So, it should work well if you hv a general coverage rcvr.  I just turned it on & all filaments light & w/ HV on, front panel bias adjusted ok for the recommended 25ma 416B plate current.  

Construction of the converter was not the prettiest work I've ever seen but if I recall correctly, there was a lot of silver plating done to it.  It did work years ago & has just been collecting dust since then.  I hv not tried it out reception wise.

An on-line tube store currently is asking $29.95 ea for 416B's so don't know if there's a market for the tubes but someone may want to play with it.  Putting a mast mounted GaAs FET preamp ahead of it should allow xlnt 2m reception.  I use to hv a schematic for it but looked everywhere & can't find it.  If I find it later, I'll send it to the lucky buyer.

Not sure what it's worth but asking $50 OBO + shipping fm 92708.  Have 3 pictures available upon request.

Tnx & 73,
Bob, K6PF