[Johnson] Viking 2 -- CDC Civil Defense Model

Sherrill Watkins Sherrill.Watkins at dgs.virginia.gov
Wed Jul 13 11:24:44 EDT 2005


Richard: I should have mentioned this earlier; but please do NOT do anything
further until you read the three separate articles on the Viking II that
appeared seven or eight years ago in ELECTRIC RADIO Magazine. The author was
Thomas Bonomo. The audio modifications presented will make the Viking II
sound like the Voice of America! I have never owned a DX-100 but from the
comments that I have seen in writing about the two rigs, the quality of
components used in the Viking II are first rate and superior to those in the
Heathkit DX100. -73- Sherrill W. k4own. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Peterson [mailto:zapp11 at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:56 AM
To: johnson at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Johnson] Viking 2 -- CDC Civil Defense Model?


Good info from everyone on the Johnson Viking 2. I regret to say, as was 
suggested, that I can't re-install the CD decal. Had I  to do it over again, 
I would have left it. I am now much wiser about these things.

In fact, when I got it, I didn't even know it was a "special" sort of Viking 
2 -- it was only after I put it on the air that I learned it was not your 
usual rig.

Today, I just call it my "WARC" Viking 2. But if the truth were known, I 
have used it only on 160, 80 and 10.

Just a thought: I think Heathkit's DX-100 is better than the Viking 2. That 
Heath has more iron and seems to be able to fully modulate all the carrier 
its RF section can make. My Viking could make the same amount of RF as my 
old DX-100, but it was really incapable of full modulation. In fact, it 
would distort because the 807s were going into grid current. Johnson claimed 
the modualtors were capable of AB2 (as I recall), but in my expereince with 
this one, single, isolated Viking 2, I concluded the engineers must have had 
a bottle in their desk drawer. Thier modulator section did not have any 
needed "head room." The DX-100 did.

Richard WB5NEN


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