Wally,
You have taken on a big project. The V44 is a pretty neat VFO with a built in power supply. But that built in power supply adds extra heat to a VFO, and that leads to drift until the thing is at temperature. By at temperature, I mean the thing gets HOT!
I attach a PDF that you might find interesting. Since you mentioned CW, my madness in what I did might not fly for you. The heart of what I did was to incorporate the XLOCK-3 VFO stabilizer into a V44.
http://www.cumbriadesigns.co.uk/x-lock.htm The VFO output coils are just a broadly tuned output full of harmonics. The VFO oscillator is always on 160m, and the 2nd stage is a doubler. To get to 10m, you have to multiply 16X....Can you imagine that drift?
Jim
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