[Milsurplus] RAK-RAL

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Charlie,

It has been my pleasure to be on the air when a power outage landed here.I have been moving to battery operation here full time. I have been using batteries for tube receivers for some time with a series stack of 9-Volt "transistor" batteries for ~90 Volts B+ with my R23 and it's six tubes. I do not yet have a battery supply for tube transmitters of more than one or two watts. I have not applied this to my RAK but I know what I will have to do. I see no reason why it will not give good service.

My motivation was the increased isolation from the AC power line and the noise that can be conducted into the receiver. It really does help. Operation without the electric utility is just icing on the cake.

73,

Bill  KU8H

> On Oct 20, 2023, at 8:04 PM, CL in NC via Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> I too have both the RAK and RAL receivers up an running.  The RAK on a homebrew supply, the RAL on the proper AC supply.  I cut my ham radio teeth on a regen receiver in the '60's, and there is something to be said when you start there and slowly work up to something more modern.  While I can't use the RAK during a power outage, I do have a couple VLF rigs that run on batteries, and I am probably the only person that looks forward to the power going out.  If the outage is big enough, all the noise on the VLF bands goes away, and you can hear some things like NDB's you could only hear at night, BC stations hundreds of miles away, and other mysterious sigs, but the lack of racket is amazing.
> 
> Charlie, W4MEC in NC
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