[HBR] Projects

[Tom Smith]

Hi Kees,
I'm still looking for a B&W 5100B. If you are aware of a 
nice one, please drop me a line.

Thanks,
Tom 

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 17:03:53 -0500
  Sandy and Kees Talen <windy10605@juno.com> wrote:
>Yep .....too quiet. At least I've got two more 
>individuals
>in the Williamson County ARC building HBRs and we're 
>now up to CD #48. Several homebrewers are scrounging for 
>IF transformers at swapmeets like Belton, HamCom, etc.
>Haven't see an single tube homebrew receiver lately and 
>one 
>homebrew 807 Tx (very nice construction). 
>
>At the Saturday WCARC breakfast, one guy brought a solid 
>state 40m HB rig built using only 2N2222s (I believe I 
>saw 
>it in an article somewhere). Really nice construction 
>using 
>that PC island technique where you get a punch from 
>Harbor 
>Freight or wherever, punch out 1/8" (or larger) disks and 
>super glue them to the copper on another PC board. Gives
>you an excellent ground plane and the wiring looks VERY
>neat and straightforward. It also allows changing 
>components
>without a mess. One of the guys was going to try that 
>technique 
>on tube type circuits in a HB receiver. Someone usually 
>brings
>something for "show and tell". I usually bring a pile of 
>parts
>in the pickup and it's all free, what's left goes into 
>the dumpster
>at the dentist office across the street. Had cigar boxes 
>of tube
>sockets, porcelain insulators, switches, CB units, VOMs, 
>cables, 
>etc. ........most coming from estate cleanup. Attendance 
>has been up. 
>
>If you don't have a once a week ham radio breakfast/lunch 
>in the 
>area where you live, you ought to start one. It's great 
>to get 
>together and swap stories once a week, retired or not.  
>
>Been keeping busy selling estate items for the club 
>members.
>If you know what a B&W 5100  AM/CW transmitter is ....one
>SK had FOUR of them, Viking Valiant, Ranger II, and 12 
>bugs.
>
>73  Kees K5BCQ
>************************************
>Visit the HBR Receiver Web Site with over 100 pictures of 
>receivers and 
>construction notes...... via http://www.qsl.net/k5bcq/ 
>
>Retrieve reflector archived data via 
>http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hbr
>