[OKDXA] Go Figure...

[Jerry Chouinard]

The Atwater-Kent - if refurbished - would look good next to a fireplace - 
not refurbished - in a fireplace!

K5YAA

At 05:14 PM 3/15/2009 -0500, you wrote:
>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... ;)
>
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