I really enjoyed the message thread sparked by the pictures of
Dale's very FB HB RX. We need more of that kind of discussion...

Here is what I've been working on in London:

40 meter DSB phone HB: UK hams recently got a doubling of their 40
meter
freq allocation and can now go up to 7.2 Mhz. I built a simple 40
meter DSB
transmitter. Solid state. VFO. Built it on a wooden cutting board
(almost
a real breadboard. Puts out about 2 watts. I run it into a heavily
modified
Ramsey kit linear. Then to a HB balanced tuner, TV lead up to the
inverted
U dipole. Works fine. Lots of fun. I use it with my Drake 2B, but
plan on
pressing into service my HB "Mate for the Mighty Midget" RX (see web
site)
(I have a 455 kc filter that I'll install eventually -- right now it
is very broad).

17 SSB phone:
I have a HB 17 meter SSB TX (see my web site). I' also use it with the
2B, but changing bands is a pain. So I'm building a dedicated RX for
17.
I have a Doug DeMaw "Barbados" reciever (someone else put the
components on
a "Circuit Boards Specialists" board. It has a 5Mhz ladder filter that
I've
broadened for pnone. I tried running the VFO at around 13 Mhz with
varactor
tuning, but it was unstable, so I'm going VXO. With 2 rocks in the 23
Mhz
range I shoud cover the phone portion of 17.

More later... Any comments or suggestions? How about following
Dale's lead and posting updates on projects?

73

Bill N2CQR M0HBR CU2JL
http://planeta.clix.pt/n2cqr