[Johnson] Will be restoring a Johnson Ranger

[whitebear1122 at comcast.net]

I'm sitting here looking at my Johnson Viking Ranger on the operating bench
and noticed something that I don't recall ever seeing before...  and this is
my 3rd Ranger since 1995.. While I knew it had 11 meters and I could easily
see the 11 meter bandswitch selection, I never looked at the dial to see
where 11 meters was.

At first I couldn't find it, and then saw it on the 21 Mc line, and over
towards the right.  It starts out at 21.0 to 21.6 and then there's this
'gap'  and then it starts again at 26.9 to 27.3+.  Hmmm.

It's just fun to realize that I hadn't seen something that's been in front
of my face for all this time.

73 Scott WA9WFA

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From: johnson-bounces at mailman.qth.net <johnson-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
Behalf Of manualman at juno.com
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2022 11:01 PM
To: johnson at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Johnson] Will be restoring a Johnson Ranger

When the Johnson Ranger was first introduced, the 11 meter band was still an
amateur radio band. In 1958, it was allocated for Class D Citizens Band
Service.
The band was useless for any amateur radio since the band had lots of
industrial plasma users and medical diathermy machines all producing tons of
wideband noise across that frequency range.
20 years later the FCC allocated the 12 meter band (part of WARC) to amateur
radio.

Personally, I would not consider modifying the original Ranger to cover 6
meters. Almost every stage, except power supply area and modulator area,
would have to be diddled with. 

Pete, wa2cwa
www.manualman.com