I picked a nice looking Supreme brand six meter SSB/AM tranceiver at a
local hamfest.
I've never heard of this brand and can't find any info on it.
It uses a 6146 in the final, almost if not all tube and has good
quality components with point to point wiring. The thing is about the
size of an old Swan 350 and looks internally almost homebuilt but I've
been told that in the mid 60's era(I'm guessing about the era), many
small xcvr makers took a few shortcuts for finacial reasons.
Any help would be appreciated, especially a schematic.
Thanks a lot.

John - K7RLD

(John Morris) wrote in message . com...
I picked a nice looking Supreme brand six meter SSB/AM tranceiver at a
local hamfest.
I've never heard of this brand and can't find any info on it.
It uses a 6146 in the final, almost if not all tube and has good
quality components with point to point wiring. The thing is about the
size of an old Swan 350 and looks internally almost homebuilt but I've
been told that in the mid 60's era(I'm guessing about the era), many
small xcvr makers took a few shortcuts for finacial reasons.
Any help would be appreciated, especially a schematic.
Thanks a lot.

John - K7RLD


That name doesn't bring up any memories. There were some obscure
companies making VHF SSB transmitters back in the sixties, but I can't
think of any SSB transceivers from obscure manufacturers.

Maybe it was something that never made it to North America, there
was Japanese equipment that never made it over here, and of course
there was some stuff manufactured in the UK.

If it looks homemade, that likely reflects a very small company,
which this surely had to be from.

Maybe it's a prototype, that never made it into production (or
advertising).

Maybe it's just someone's very fancy home made rig.

Maybe it dates from later? Once semiconductors got good enough,
there was some neat stuff coming from Europe. Not that it
was imported much, but we were seeing ads for it.

You might want to specify what tubes it used, or even if
it was all tubes. There wouldn't happen to be a plate on
it that specifies a date? A plate that says where it
was manufactured? Is it a filter (and what frequency?) or phasing
rig? Is it VFO controlled, or crystal controlled? Can you see
any crystals in there besides the carrier oscillator, to give
an idea of the first IF? (Considering the date, if it's not
crystal controlled it's got to be a double conversion unit;
most VHF SSB rigs of the era would be in effect a receive
and transmit crystal controlled converter along with a low power
transceiver, often operating in the 14MHz range.

Maybe none of these details will help to track the manufacturer,
but it is definitely a curiousity that others would like
to know about.

Michael VE2BVW

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I picked a nice looking Supreme brand six meter SSB/AM tranceiver at a
local hamfest.
I've never heard of this brand and can't find any info on it.
It uses a 6146 in the final, almost if not all tube and has good
quality components with point to point wiring. The thing is about the
size of an old Swan 350 and looks internally almost homebuilt but I've
been told that in the mid 60's era(I'm guessing about the era), many
small xcvr makers took a few shortcuts for finacial reasons.
Any help would be appreciated, especially a schematic.
Thanks a lot.

John - K7RLD


That name doesn't bring up any memories. There were some obscure
companies making VHF SSB transmitters back in the sixties, but I can't
think of any SSB transceivers from obscure manufacturers.

Maybe it was something that never made it to North America, there
was Japanese equipment that never made it over here, and of course
there was some stuff manufactured in the UK.


Hi,

Just my two pennyworth but if it's 1960s-era gear it's unlikely to be UK
made as we didn't have Six in those days, that band was occupied by
black & white TV at that time. We didn't get Six back until the mid-80s.

73,
--
Roger Basford
(G3VKM)