[OKDXA] Go Figure...

[Nelson Derks]

Check the bid on this: 
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=4564097

Then check the bid on this: 
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=4559855

What are these people thinkin'?

BTW: Here's one for the 'RH: 
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=4564294

Believe it or don't, there are web sources for vintage / repro dial 
plates and glass... Typically for RCA and Zenith, but Atwater-Kent 
wasn't exactly rare. Old radio dudes throw nothing away so it's possible 
one could be found. It's a super-het, Ross, and that's the good kind. 
You have a stash of '24 and '27 tubes, don't ya'?

In other news, if any of you ever get the urge to pick up a Johnson 250 
CB at a Hamfest be aware that EF didn't think it would ever be necessary 
to net the xtals so there are no trimmers in the matrix. Let's just say 
all channels are within 1 kHz. As for the Regency SSB jobbie... Having a 
heckuva' time finding a schemo for it but aside from that works 
remarkably well. It does have a trimmer on every xtal and could be put 
exactly on freq if I knew the magic numbers. Right now it's close enough 
for chicken band use. Uniden board inside and very similar to some Tram 
models but no exacto-mundo match so far. Might be able to fake it. 
Somebody clipped a pair of diodes in the ALC circuit (not unusual) and 
it modulates TOO DAMNED LOUD so that will get fixed first.

I hate it when a perfectly good SSB envelope flat-tops.

Also had a moment of clarity while working on it. Where do you suppose 
the trade name Uniden came from? There's a crystal filter inside made by 
the Uni Electronics Corporation of Japan and I can't help but wonder if 
Uni Denshi in JA land translates to Uniden on this side of the Pacific.

Could be the rosin smoke talking, but ya' never know... ;)