Jim, You stole my thunder. Negative feedback is a very effective way of reducing distortion and smoothing frequency response. It was used in the Ranger to reduce the effective plate resistance of the 1614's so that it would work well as a speech amplifier for a larger modulator (such as the 810's in the Johnson Kilowatt).
Darrell, WA5VGO At 01:42 PM 9/15/2009 -0500, you wrote: >The method of negative feedback in the audio section of the Ranger is >unique and very effective. > >Jim/W5JO > >----- Original Message ----- > > > > >I wonder why the Ranger would be among the best stock audio and the > > Valiant among the worst? Same maker, same vintage, etc. > > > > 73 de W3NU _______________________________________ No viruses found in this outgoing message Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.8.3 http://www.iolo.com ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
