Hi Charlie,
The HT-32 project took place at a TV station where I worked. They had a
well equipped work shop at the transmitter site.
I had some idle time each work day to build and test.
Great on building your double lattice filter. Opening up the HC-6 crystals
is a delicate
operation. A friend tried it and too much heat and bye, bye crystal. I had
ground many of the larger FT-243 type chrystals
but never tried the loading process. Think one of the other guys tried it
with pencil lead. He was trying to build a double lattice filter with a
perfectly
flat bandpass with steep sides. Was looking for perfection and never gave
up trying.
I have a BC-696 up attic. I used another one mobile with a PE-103 dynamotor
in the 1950's. I could zero beat a station with only 6 volts on the
oscillator tube plate.
It probably was 3/4 KCS off when transmitting. but the old wide band AM it
did not matter. But that oscillator just wanted to go !
73
Bruce
Hi, Bruce
Yes, I remember "The IMP - A 3 Tube Filter Rig" by Joe Galeski, W4IMP!
Wanted to build one, but by then I was designing and building my own rigs,
and home-brewing my own back-to-back double half-lattice crystal filters,
while working my way through college as a technician/junior engineer in a
radio plant. I built one crystal filter from 2105 KHz crystals that were
used as the 2nd L.O in a citizens-band transceiver that we manufactured.
They wre used to convert the 1650 KHz first IF to 455 KHz. I opened up
the
HC-6 crystal cans and very carefully loaded and matched a couple of the
2105
crystal a bit lower in frequency wth with tiny bits of solder to pruduce
an
SSB- width double 1/2 lattice filter that I built an SSB rig aound that I
used for a while with my NC-109 receiver.
Wow, home-brewing an HT-32 must have been quite a project!!
73,
Charlie, K4OTV
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