Just started doing awork on a bunch of GRC-9 transmitter / receivers. Never spent much time on them before but getting an education now. The big question for today is the receivers bias battery, lot of stuff on line about this from its
only there to improve audio response to it is limiting current in the audio output tube and absolutely necessary.
It only provides cutoff voltage to the audio output tube, nothing else. I have seen where people have built up battery packs and all sort of stuff but when I look at it am going to assume it draws almost no current at all in normal operation
thru grid current. When the radio is turned off no current is drawn, unless something like C54 gets leaky So why use big cells (AA, AAA) for this and just stuff a lithium 3.6-volt clock backup battery in its place?
Would look a lot better than some clump of AA cells and can fit in the original holder. The other option is to just use the radio without the battery. Cannot hear any difference between the audio with or without the bias.
Another thought, if you don’t use the battery should you jumper C54 to ground to prevent any positive DC voltage from developing acrost the grid of V6, maybe a 1.0 K resistor to keep you from grounding the grid?
So, lets see what the prevailing opinion is on this?
Ray F/KA3EKH