[Johnson] VIKING RANGER - another one

[Bill Cromwell]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 21:44 -0400, 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.


Yowie!

I have a Johnson Ranger. Been using it some. Building an external,
heterodyne VFO for it and will use the bejeepers out of it when that
gets done.

I don't do AM phone here either. I merely pulled the tubes from the AM
section. I don't have to power the heaters. They don't draw any plate
current. The radio is ever so slightly lighter in weight when I have to
move it. If I ever change my mind or the radio goes to somebody who DOES
like AM all that has to be done is plug those tubes in.

It ain't that hard to make a power supply. If that radio was in my hands
the second 6146 would come back out and an external supply would power
the RF section of that Ranger. I have already decided that as the power
transformers in my BA transmitters fail I will just go to external
power..maybe just one supply for all of them (operated one at a time).
But with all those audio tubes laid up in the drawer instead of inside
the transmitters the transformers won't cooperate and let their smoke
out! Go figure.

73,

Bill  KU8H