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

[Tom Smith]

Hi Group,

I have probably a pound or two of #26 enameled if anyone needs some.

Tom N5AMA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <waltah at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [HBR] "A MATE for the MIGHTY MIDGET"...


> 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
>
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