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Title: White face Johnson conversion to 75 meters
Post by: kf4qkr on October 12, 2009, 02:22:21 AM
Ok felow AMers heres the one you have been waiting for. Just go to QRZ and click on my website and check out the white face Johnson conversion video.While you are there you can check out the updated tour of the shack. I am not hooked up to the internet at the moment so dont get mad if I dont answer your comments.I will eventually get to read them when I log in here at my freinds house. Thanks and 73s. KF4QKR


Title: Re: White face Johnson conversion to 75 meters
Post by: WA3VJB on October 12, 2009, 06:20:01 AM
Heya Mike I remember the "white face Johnson" from the 1960s, when it became the hot ticket on 11m as a high-powered rig.

Crystal-controlled "business band" radio wasn't it, at least originally ?

http://www.youtube.com/KF4QKR


Title: Re: White face Johnson conversion to 75 meters
Post by: WØTDH on October 15, 2009, 04:47:23 AM
Hi Mike,

I recently purchased the Messenger II black face with tunable rcvr.
I would like to know the possibilty of using rcvr vfo also for transmit.
Purchased a 29.010 xtal and it works OK, but cost more than the rig  :)

73,

Tom

To contact direct;
w0tdh@hughes.net
Real radios GLOW In The Dark


Title: Re: White face Johnson conversion to 75 meters
Post by: WA4JK on October 15, 2009, 05:23:42 AM
Keep in mind as I understand it Mike is only using the audio section of the Johnson, everything else is outside the Johnson. Is this correct Mike?


Title: Re: White face Johnson conversion to 75 meters
Post by: KC4VWU on October 16, 2009, 01:04:39 PM
Mike lives close by, so I get to talk with him regularly.


The Messenger is a full out transmitter, except for the oscillator at this point. I think he's going to add a Hartley circuit, similar to the ARC-5 vfo, for that purpose.

Phil
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