[HBR] Fw: Re: GB> HBR on the Bay

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/13/04 11:26:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
waltah at earthlink.net writes:


> Certainly looks like a receiver done as a successor to the same 
> guy's HBR.   

Agreed. Maybe it really is a transceiver, though. The Southgate Type 6 
transceiver has all the receiver and low-level transmitter stuff on one big chassis, 
then the driver and final of the transmitter on another chassis. 

That's a BC-221 tuning mechanism I think?  

No - not like anyhting I've ever seen.

 Maybe a 
> 
> modified one?  The cap shaft on those is usually transverse.   
> Looks like he switched to use the drum as the fine dial and the flat 
> plate for coarse.  Boy, I don't know ... that wouldn't work either, if 
> they're really BC-221.

It's not like any BC-221 or LM mechanism I ever saw - and I've seen a few...

> 
> Those oil-filled caps are from the BC-342 or 348?


342

> 
> Looks like there's room for a multi-gang cap in the box.  
> 
> Strange placement of the bandswitch knob -- but not impossible.   
> No power supply.   Is that a big hole in the chassis to the left of the 
> box?  
> 
> Looks like a clever and capable builder.
> 

Yep.



> "Weston" from the meter, I guess.   I think you definitely need this 
> item, Kees.
> 
> 

No bids yet...


--

Some years back, I bought an unusual item at the Timonium Hamfest. It was a 
homebrew transmitter frequency synthesizer by W3QLV. Was in QST about 1962. 
Used about two dozen surplus xtals. You simply dialed up the frequency in the 80 
meter band on three rotary switches (hundreds, tens and units of kilocycles) 
and then dialed in the last kHz on a big National dial. Three oscillators and 
two mixers. The kilocycle vernier was done by VXO'ing the oscillators in 
opposite directions.

Along with the synthesizer I got a homebrew receiver - basically "you or the 
dumpster". Rack panel construction, National PW dial, lots of features. 
Covered 40 and 20 meters band-image style, with a first IF of 3500 kHz and a second 
IF of 455. Xtal and audio filters, built in supply, calibrator, and the PW 
dial read out directly in kilocycles above the lower band edge. 

What was most incredible was the construction quality. They were works of 
art! I originally bought them for some of the parts, but simply could not bring 
myself to do anything to them, particularly since they both worked perfectly.

The synthesizer was eventually sold to a WA2 who was going to use it in a big 
AM rig. (I hope he did). The receiver was sold with a DX-100 in need of much 
work, to a ham getting back into hollowstate. 

Guess who was too dumb to take any pictures :-( But at least they were 
preserved. 

See also W0HIO's "little receiver"...

73 de Jim, N2EY