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November 5th 04, 07:56 PM

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(William Donzelli) writes:

Seriously, to those that have never seen and RAA (or RAB), a first
glance at the innards will leave you stunned. Never again will you see
such overengineering.

Wow. I had an RAK (IIRC) VLF Navy set, that I could pick up by myself back
then. It was over-engineered enough -- inductors and a tuning cap that looked
like a KW antenna tuner. The separate PS had a ballast bulb that looked like
something out of a searchlight. And it worked great -- WWVB any time of the
day, and who knows how many useless encrypted Navy RTTY stations.

But even it couldn't get that Swedish station, from the Midwest. I traded it
for an HF boatanchor rx.

I wish I could get it - I have an RAB-2 (the HF brother to the RAA)
that needs company.

I'd have loved to get the RAL, the regenerative HF brother to the RAK. I have
never operated such a smooth regeneration control as what that RAK had -- you
could peak it for max AM sens and select, or just drop it in to hear weak CW.
Would be fun on HF.
73, Mike K.

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