[HBR] "A MATE for the MIGHTY MIDGET"...

[waltah at earthlink.net]

Tom wrote:
> I finally found some No. 26 enameled wire (found everything else...
> 24, 28, you name it, but no 26), and wound the missing L1 for 80m
> for my 1964 HBR-11. Couldn't dig up any APC caps (Murphy's Law - I
> know, darned good and well, that they're out there, somewhere!), so
> took an APC clone from a piece of throwaway chassis, and it was a
> 100mmfd (before pf, guys), so figuring that I needed a 50, I cut the
> sucker in half - worked great.  True thrills were mine ...

Too cool ... this is of course the ham spirit and technique of old

That midsize Radio Schlock magnet wire is *very* close to #26 -- 
0.0165 instead of 0.01594 and allowing for the enamel that must be 
well within the tolerance for wire manufacture.

'mmf' is correct for these radios; I am always suspicious that if one 
attempts to build/repair a 1960 +/- design in pf, the set might not 
work.  

Walt 
KJ4KV