[Milsurplus] possible modifications for RBC receiver?

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 18 Sep 2016 at 19:02, George Babits wrote:

> Hi Ken,
> 
> Well, if I need to have a product detector, I just use my Collins S-Line 
> gear.

Which uses that exact same single-triode PD I mentioned....

The way I look at it is that if it works well in Collins gear, then it is at least OK.

>  Works great and saves a lot of ruination of older receivers.  Nothing 
> wrong with the older receivers and I much prefer to use them the way they 
> were designed to be operated.

Me too. :-)

I'll say it again: the OT were no dummies. They had darned good reasons for doing what 
they did. And I have found that MOST modifications to mil gear that hams tried actually 
make the gear work WORSE than it did before it was modified.

And, I will repeat again, this includes most of the modifications which were published in the 
ham literature. Very, very few were ever thought out properly.

The Surplus Perversion Manuals were some of the worst. I suspect that most of the mods 
published in those rags were never tested thoroughly by their designers.

Ken W7EKB

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