This is the Miscellaneous Boatanchor page of K7RLD
This is my dual 4-400 amplifier I bought to replace the single
4-1000. In the future I plan on replacing the meters with something smaller
to make it shorter to fit in an existing case I have and building a smaller
power supply for it to sit on.
This is a
Turner 99 microphone I got while on a trip to California along with a bunch
of other things including an SP600 JX-1. I’ve got this on 40 mtrs with the
Viking ll and HQ-160.
This is my
Multi Elmac AF-68. Many people call it the “poor man’s” Johnson Ranger. It
is plate modulated with a pair of 6L6GB’s driving a single 6146. I built
the power supply from one I cabbaged from an old Atlas. I’ve been told
that the AF-68 has great audio. This transmitter currently teams up with
the HQ-180 on 10 mtrs. Interestingly,
my present QTH sported a set of Multi Elmac garage door openers. Elmac,
evidently, was in to a lot of things. Interestingly,
my present QTH sported a set of Multi Elmac garage door openers.
The RCA AR-88
was purchased at the Puyallup hamfest in 2000. It is a very “Hot” receiver
and great for bandsurfing. It sports 3 IF sections and a pair of 6V6’s in push-pull
for audio. This model receiver was mainly sent to Europe after WWll. Most
all of the information I’ve gotten about the AR-88 is from Europe.
The E.H. Scott
Model RBO-2 is wonderful cruising receiver that took on the moniker of a
“Morale Receiver”. It was used extensively to pipe music and shortwave
broadcasts into the P.A. systems onboard ocean freighters in the 1940’s. It has one BC
band as well as two SW bands and uses an “eye” tube for tuning. (I’ve also
had a Scott RCH which is strictly S.W.) It is built
with the same ruggedness as the famous chrome plated AM/FM/SW receivers of
the 1940’s made by E.H. Scott and that are highly sought after by
collectors. Point of
interest: the case is
completely copper plated. Ships before and during WWll were being sunk by
German U-Boats. After extensive analysis it was found that the local
oscillator was giving off enough signal that the enemy U-Boats could zero
right in on them. So, not only was the radio encased in copper but also the
oscillator tube is covered by a special case cofiguration.
Here’s my one
piece of Collins gear. It is a 51J-2 receiver I acquired at Puyallup
several years ago. It was my first real attempt at refurbing an old
Boatanchor and boy was it a doozy. It was kind of like beginning a jogging
program and starting it out by doing a marathon. After struggling for weeks
I finally accessed the internet and found a 2 year old thread about a
51J-2. My fateful
contact with Bob Herendeen, was the only way, I think, it would have ever
come back to life. He spent hours at home and work on the internet trying
to help me find problems, analyze what was going on, and point me in the
right direction without giving me the answers. Bob and I have
become friends and I contact him from time to time when I’m in the Bay Area
on business. We since have found out that we went to rival universities in
the Midwest at about the same time. I am forever indebted to Bob for his
patience and guidance.