"Bill" wrote in message
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In message , Dave D
writes


rather advanced for their time, crap case, crap internal aerial.
Not as bad as the PF6, the metal sliding handle covered the PF5 style
aerial!


Were they dirty?
Very.
We were still making a few in 1975/6 until we got an analyser in the
dept. that put an end to tuning for max. RF on a diode detector at the
bottom of a rabbit hutch as most of it was no where near where it should
have been.

Did you actually use this arrangement in the factory then? I always assumed
it was simply a repair shop bit of kit.

I made one from cardboard about the time I was first licenced- it was used
many times to convert PF1s.

I've still got a couple of PF1s in the loft I think- including one rx
converted to 2m.

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Brian Reay
www.g8osn.org.uk
www.amateurradiotraining.org.uk
FP#898