[Johnson] Ranger relay socket

Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:11:43 -0800

The last line says it all...those porcelain sockets are even more
dangerous than the line cord plug. I chop those dang things out of there
and use a chassis punch for a round, 2 pin Jones connector that I mount
with pop rivets.

Regards

Dave Harmon
NSRCA 586
K6XYZ[at]comcast[dot]net
Torrance, Ca.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roy Morgan
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 10:38 AM
To: Philip Atchley; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Johnson] Ranger relay socket

At 06:10 PM 1/9/04 +0000, Philip Atchley wrote:
>Hi.
>It appears that "next time" I have the Viking Ranger (original model)
out of
>it's case I need to change the socket for the antenna relay.
>Anyway, these "appear" to be an ordinary porcelain "Crystal sockets" of
>which I have a number of from old scrapped gear.  Is this indeed the
case?

Phil,

Yes it is the case.

>ALSO, what is "usually" used as a plug to fit into these Relay sockets?

There are many methods:

1) (perhaps the best) take apart a junk HC-6 crystal and make it into a 
connector.  (One guy was selling these a while ago.)

2) Stuff whatever wire you can into the socket and hope for the best.

3) (If you are lucky) use the correct original now unobtainium plugs

4) Change the thing out for a reasonable connector that is safe and
convenient.

Roy

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