[Johnson] VIKING RANGER - another one

[Eddy Swynar]

On 2012-08-06, at 9:44 PM, Charles Ring wrote:

> I have another, inoperative, Ranger (1) with an interesting history. Its 
> prior owner (SK) hated voice on ham bands so he tore out all AM 
> components in it and his Valiant, which I also have. Clearly the thing 
> to do with the Valiant is just use it on CW, but he had more to do on 
> the Ranger. He added a second 6146 final in parallel and to make room 
> for it he removed the whole power supply. I do not have his external 
> power supply for it. So the question is, what to do with this Ranger? 
> Part it out? I've had these transmitters for about 30 years and have 
> done nothing with the Ranger.


Hi Charles,

Now what in the world would have possessed someone to do anything that drastic...? Why not just leave the mode switch permanently on the "CW" setting, & leave it at that...?!

I guess we'll never know, will we? 

Sadly, one of the most desirable parts from a Ranger is the modulation transformer itself---and I'll bet that was the FIRST thing the previous owner pulled out! IMHO opinion, that rig should now "give" so that others like it might "live"---in short, part it out. It's too  much of a project to restore to original condition anyway, from the sounds of it...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ