[HBR] Re: HBR Digest, Vol 55, Issue 10

[Dave And Merrijoy]

Good luck, Guys, on the sets you're building.  I hope you both will keep us 
informed as to your progress.
Dave w9ocm


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Bertini" <radioconnection at gmail.com>
To: <match at ece.utah.edu>; "HBR Receiver List" <hbr at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [HBR] Re: HBR Digest, Vol 55, Issue 10


> Hi Marvin..
>
> So you're building one too???  I was feeling awfully lonely on here.  I 
> suspect
> we're a dying breed!
>
> My main chassis is also a 10" x 17'," and it just arrived the other day, 
> and
> t's going into a no-name enclosure with a flip top lid that was
> another lucky find!
> I have around 80% of the parts so far.
>
> I'm doing dry layouts on the chassis--moving parts around and trying to 
> get
> some ideas of what layout works best for what I want to do. I'm staying 
> with
> the Command IFTs, only because I have them and it would
> be a shame to waste them. I haven't given up on the idea of a linkage to
> permit  variable BW, but I suspect the gain will be going all over the 
> place
> as the coil coupling is changed. I'll have to post some photos on 
> PhotoBucket as
> work progresses, but this is going to be a very long term project for me.
>
> Pete
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Marvin Match <match at ece.utah.edu> wrote:
>> On 23 Sep 2008 at 4:01, Pete wrote:
>>
>>> Turning into a mechanical layout nightmare. The ARC-5 IFTs eat too  much
>>> room to allow what I was thinking of doing; its almost impossible to get 
>>> them
>>> in a straight line perpendicular to vacant panel space. Back to the 
>>> fixed IF
>>> BW.
>>
>> That's the conclusion I came to. The ARC-5 transformers are just too
>> big.  Lining them up front-to-back would require a chassis 13 inches
>> deep, which is doable if you can get them behind an empty part of the
>> front panel, but I've decided to try to stay withing a 10" x 17"
>> chassis.
>>
>> At this moment I'm investigating 3/4" 262kc since they're common.
>> Maybe padded down some.
>>
>> Marvin
>> KA7TPH
>>
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