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

[Llgpt at aol.com]

John R. Leary would take a SP-600 down to the bare chassis, custom make  
additional pieces for the top of the chassis (depending on that particular  
configuration), replace the wiring, resistors and capacitors. He must have got a  
"bargain" on white wire with a blue tracer, as two of the Leary's I owned had  
lots's of it..................fun to trace something out when it was bundled 
and  laced..................:-)
 
He built about 40 of 'em. Even built a National NC-800, he used two  NC-400's 
to make it. One thing about his custom SP-600's, they were hot as a  
firecracker sensitivity wise.
 
Les Locklear
 
 
In a message dated 6/16/2005 2:38:49 PM Central Daylight Time,  
ka1kaq at gmail.com writes:

On  6/9/05, Philip Atchley <beaconeer at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>  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.  
<snip>

> 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.

Well Phil,  it seems enough time has passed since you asked about this,  
soooo....

Prof. Locklear has a fairly extensive knowledge of the  Leary-modified
Hammarlunds, '200s and '600s, IIRC. This guy made  some...shall we
say...interesting versions? Pretty wild paint schemes too  (I bet HE is
the one who started black panels!). I think Les even wrote up  one or
two of these units for ER some years back?

Sounds like quite  a project, whatever you end up doing....

~ Todd/'Boomer'   KA1KAQ
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