[HBR] Rookie here

[gswynar at webmail.durham.net]

Hi Steve,

Well, it sure does sound like you're bound & determined to build this rig,
so I'll pass on some "nuggests" to you, all based upon personal experience
here...! Hi Hi

First-off, don't get TOO hung-up about finding / buying the "ultimate"
suitable "enclosure" for your receiver --- MAKE one! I've done it LOTS of
times, using suitably-sized aluminum panels & "L" brackets. Use whatever
chassis you might as the "foundation", & go up from there (hint: it makes
things a LOT easier if you can somehow squeeze in a sheet, or two, of
Reynold's Do-It-Yourself aluminum cane metal in the euation).

As for time --- or a LACK Of it! --- I recall seeing someplace long ago,
wherein a novelist once said that when it comes to writing, if you're
inspired, you can do it standing up in a subway car. Homebrewing to me is
the same. I've built TONS of stuff over the years, & I simply took the
time to MAKE the time. One of my favourite tricks to squeeze more hours
out of the day is to wake-up during the week an hour, or so, earlier than
normal.

NOBODY around to bother you for "honey dews", no kids, no nothing --- just
you & your project. It certainly worked for me, and my enthusiasm for what
I was doing carried the day.

Good luck with whatever you might eventually execute there...

~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ






> Hi guys:
>
> Thanks guys for taking the time to reply - it is greatly appreciated.
>
> Good remarks: what's important, do it all...compromises...experience.
>
> Let me start with the last - experience.
> I may not be a circuit/design guy but I sure have hands on
> experience..built
> my first and homebrew 75 transmitter at age 15 in 1963...repaired airborne
> (
> F-102 ) radar weapons equipment in the USAF...just restored my DX-100 ala
> GTO @
> 99.9%..(glad to  send pix should you like to see it)
>
> Importance and "do it all" kinda go together...I'd really like: 3 Mc to
> 150
> Mc; AM, SSB, CW...and VHF-FM for 6 & 2 meters reception...or add a VHF
> converter latter?
> Sorta like a Nems-Clark unit, I'd say.
>
> I would say #1 feature would be super-Bandspread for CW work.
> This leads me to ask:  just how is "bandspread" specified?? in Mc per
> degree
> for rotation...Mc per delta picofarad of the variable capacitor?
>
> Compromises...I guess when I know them and understand them...I will have
> achieved the education I need right now ..hihi
>
> Time...ahhh...THE issue.
> Well gents..I ain't got much time.
> Matter of fact, as I was away from Ham radio for 40 years...I'm in a hurry
> making up for this lost time...so kindly excuse my unenlightened
> enthusiasm.
>
> Question please:  where does one find a selection of enclosures into which
> the chassis is placed?
> This subject is #2 in importance to me as I'm a avocational
> 'artist'...style,
> appearance, quality, ease...etc are important elements for me...the most
> important = Simple.
>
> Yes...simple and minimal.
>
> Guess I got my work cut out for me - huh?
>
> Regards,
> Steve
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