[Milsurplus] RAL receiver

[Richard Brunner]

> On 22 Oct 2006 at 14:24, Hue Miller wrote:
> Or a pilot light and an audio gain control...which was about all it could 
> have used...sometimes.

By coincidence my 2'nd RAL came with a pilot light, nicely installed, 
and I will add an af volume control in place of the dc power switch. 
When I opened up the response on the af amplifier on the other one the 
gain came up enormously (I think) and I had to add the af volume control 
to balance rf-af gain.  With high af gain I had to keep the rf gain way 
down, starving the detector, and all signals were weak-sounding and 
watery.  Conversely, with too much rf gain on a busy band the detector 
is overdriven with bad results.  It works very well now, and even SSB 
sounds as good or better than on modern receivers.

Richard Brunner, AA1P