Some of you may know, because I have been talking about it a lot on the air. I have a ws-19 Mk.2 that was a real basket case that I picked up at Hamvention last year.

Been putting a lot of time into it and intend to use it as a base for NCS this year on the WW2 3885 Net.

Because it was trashed and because I always thought the WS-19 family had a couple of shortcomings, I striped it down and did a rebuild. Ditched the UHF set, changed the way the transmitter is excited, yes now have a WS-19 that's crystal controlled on transmit! And changed from screen modulation to high level plate modulation using the modulation transformer from the UHF side and last but not least installed an output tank in the PA and a T/R relay. And if that was not enough used the old intercom subsystem to build an audio power amplifier for driving a big speaker.

Originally intended to use a couple solid state inverters inside the radio to obtain the two high voltages but now see that I will still have to have an external power supply for use in the field, so the new problem is that I need the big connector that plugs into the bottom front of the radio. Think originally there was a Dog Bone cable that connected the radio and power supply, but I will more than likely use an old GE Master solid state power supply that will be located by the battery.