[Milsurplus] A design project??

[D C Macdonald]

Do a "google" search for RME and Radio Manufacturing Engineers
(I think that's the full name).  I'll bet you will locate several sites
specializing in info on RME.  If nothing else works, you can surely
buy a repro manual from W7FG (http://www.w7fg.com).  It
probably would be more than $12 plus shipping.

73  ---  Mac, K2GKK/5



----Original Message Follows----
From: Jim Isbell <millenniumfalcon at cableone.net>
To: Mail List for Milsurplus <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Milsurplus] A design project??
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:37:54 -0500

I have an RME  VHF-126 converter that covers 6 meter band, 2 meter band and 
the 220Mc band.  I also have an RME converter that covers 80 through 10 
meters. The VHF-126 converter has a huge tuning dial as well as a band 
switch which indicates a fixed frequency output while the HF converter has 
only a band switch which would indicate that it is only a converter and NOT 
a tuner.

Now the first thing I need to know is just what frequencies these two 
converters put out.  BUT on BAMA there are no documents on either of these 
rigs.  Does anyone know of a source...realatively inexpensive, of 
course......for such data.  I would be happy just to know the output freq 
for the VHF unit and the output band for the HF unit.

Where the design comes in is that it would seem that in the case of the VHF 
unit it would be a very nice project to design a fixed frequency receiver to 
run the converter/tuner into.  Since it would only have to be a single 
frequency receiver and not need to be frequency agile it would seem that a 
very GOOD receiver with all sorts of bells and whistles and AM/FM/SSB/ etc 
could be done relatively easily without a lot of frequency agility to mess 
up the design.  In the case of the HF converter you still only have to deal 
with a 1mhz wide receiver so it still gets rid of a lot of complexity.

Yes, I could get a wide band multiple freq receiver that covered the 
frequencies I needed for the converter outputs, but that is over kill AND 
since I could eliminate a bunch of front end crap it would seem that maybe, 
rather than design something already designed, a very well designed Military 
Surplus rig that was otherwise not of much use could be utilized.

This is still in the brain storming stage so any comments of any sort are 
welcome.

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