[Hammarlund] Has anyone here ever "built" a SP-600?

Thu Jun 9 23:27:34 EDT 2005

Mr. Beacon, 	

See this annoying comment in your footer: "991 Different NDB's heard to date." 	

	Would you please stop fooling around with these radios this dumpster diver
buddy of yours keeps dropping off for you to fix, give him back the good one, an
leave you with a big dumb grin and a butt high pile of parts and hear nine more
of those blasted beacons? After months and months of that "991", please hear at
least one more! Even Frogzilla is getting annoyed. Now I know your friend is
purple, (do not ask people!) and that is the one color that Frogzilla really
really hates! Are you getting some conductivity across that spark gap path
between your ears?  So dig yourself out of those parts and stop rumaging around
among them like a four year old who found his mother's purse unattended and is
going through it looking for the pink fruit flavored gum, coins for the Day Care
center video games they keep where the teachers go and send those smoke signals
like the Indians used to do, TV remote for momand Dad's bedroom TV with all the
good channels on it and those really cool funny looking balloons in the foil
packages that your big sister got into trouble for blowing up when the
Missionary visiting your Church came for dinner! PLEASE Phil, get into your
beacon seekin' mood mode and hear one more beacon!  

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From: Philip Atchley <beaconeer at sbcglobal.net>
To: hammarlund at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Hammarlund] Has anyone here ever "built" a SP-600?
Date: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:27 PM

Hi,

Well, I'll be building a "custom" SP-600 from a (literal) basket case that a
gentleman brought over.  I mean, this thing is 'REALLY' a basket case.  Shiny
bare chassis with ONLY the power Xformer and two filter chokes mounted!!!

Normally, I'd say "forget it", but I'm looking at it as a challenge.  All the
major parts and hardware is there and it appears the only major item missing
is the S meter.  When he said he was bringing a "basket case" over I figured
some parts had probably been pulled for whatever reason. I never thought it 
was going to be a totally homebrewed radio ;-)

Anyway, it'll be a "custom" job as I will put a product detector in it, and 
probably use SS diodes for the bias supply etc.  I'm not going to try to 
duplicate the
neat factory wiring harness though.  It'll be wired neatly, but I won't try to
duplicate everything exactly. At least the RF sub assembly with turret etc is
all intact (A JX-14 like this other one).

HOWEVER, this would be the time to consider the various options available to 
the builder.  Anyone on the list have thoughts on things that Hammarlund 
SHOULD have done differently in the design of a SP-600.  The RF deck appears 
to be a JX-14 7 wire version, at least that's what the cover says.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
991 Different NDB's heard to date.
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