[HBR] Never ending Home Brew

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Tom,

That sounds like fun.  I  keep thinking along similar lines -- only a lot 
less ambitious.  I have a  "house trailer" wall mounted AM radio that I would 
like to modify for 75  AM.  Since I am really only interested in 75 meter AM 
(3870 to 3885) the  front end could be a simple slug tuned coil without tracking 
problems.   Just tune the oscillator -- may not even need a dial drive.  No BFO 
even,  to start with at least.  Jack K9ACT (near Chicago) has a net at noon 
CDT on  3870 AM every week day.  No need for an elaborate receiver usually.   
What a way to get ones feet wet!  Should be a great way to start an HBR  career 
for someone with limited experience.

Dan K9WEK



In a  message dated 3/26/2009 3:51:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
daileyservices at qwest.net writes:
Now, the phrase "never ending home brew" has  many delightful conotations, 
but I decided to not recreate my 1964 HBR-11  (it still works swell) - rather 
I'm gonna create the radio I MEANT to make,  but never did - an All American 
5 AM radio, pulled from a "radio -  recordplayer" combination - with a Gonset 
Super Six converter in front of  it, including a HB BFO, made out of a 455kc 
IF can.  A friend of mine  in junior-high made one, and it worked respectably 
well with his DX-20.   So... I figured, that rather than pull the tubes and 
xfmrs & tossing it,  I'd make the "receiver" of my youth, and put it 
alongside the 6AG7 xmtr,  built on an honest-to-gosh bread pan.  How's that 
for retro,  boyz?  (of course, I'll align it all with a Marconi 2022C 
digi-input  siggen, that I could have only DREAMED about, when I was a mere 
youth of  13).

Tom  

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