"EP Swynar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Good Afternoon,All,
If you want to have a peak at what may surely prove to be "...the smile of the day" for many of you, please click onto the following web site... http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/?saved=1 Now, after having seen my handiwork therein --- and before you go laughing out TOO loudly! --- be advised that there IS method to my madness, as I shall endaevour to explain. Someone, sometime ago on this Reflector, proposed building an outboard accessory crystal selector for use with the R-4 series of receiver, in order to enhance its "frequency agility": after giving this notion some thought here, I came to the conclusion that the idea certainly had merit. An extra "peripheral" switching arrangement like this would dramatically reduce the wear & tear of the normal crystal select switch on the R-4. Additionally --- a HUGE plus, IMHO --- an add-on switch would afford one the "luxury" of having far more than just the usual ten positions that come "stock" with the Drake... The more crystals, the more the SWL'ing possibilities with the rig...! A quick audit of the junque box here revealed that I had a near bag full of HC-6/U crystal sockets, half of an aluminum "handy case", as well as a 2-pole / SIXTEEN-position(!) rotary switch (really two separate single-pole / 16-throw wafers, mounted on a single shaft). Combined with a single-pole / double-throw toggle switch, I had all I needed for the addition / inclusion of an outboard extra THIRTY- TWO crystals for use with my venerable R-4 receiver. I use low-C RG-62 coaxial cable to connect the switch assembly to crystal socket #1 at the back of the rig; the "plug" at the end of this cable is little more than the salvaged "innards" of a defunct HC-6/U crystal. Best of all, the doggone thing works --- and it works quite well (doesn't look too bad mounted alongside the rig, too, IMHO!). I've been soliciting Hams for any & all excess unused HC-6/U crystals that they might have available for swapping purposes, and have had a very nice response from a LOT of helpful Amateurs. Of course, hardly any of the frequencies that I've collected here end in "0.6", or "0.1", as the R-4 prefers to see --- but this is little hardship, considering that I can at least listen to different parts of the spectrum whilst working on other things in the shack, that I might otherwise not have been able to do before. It's not perfect, but neither was it meant to be. I continue to be on the look-out for any & all potential new additions to the "rock collection", such that I might eventually have near-complete coverage of all of the popular SWL BC bands, as well as other segments of HF spectrum that are of interest. I have many crystals that are excess to my needs here in this regard, and I'd be more than happy to engage in a possible trade with you, if such a swap might be of mutual benefit...just let me know what you have there, and what you're looking for, with my thanks in advance...! ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: www.zerobeat.net - sponsored by www.tlchost.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
