IMPROVED NEOPHYTE RECEIVER
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I have a question, has anyone built the above and had success with it? A
friend of mine built a kit once from Ramsey - it used a NE6XX chip and the
receiver was the biggest piece of garbage I had ever seen. He built it
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My son built the Ramsey "shortwave radio" kit about 15 years ago; he had
absolutely NO trouble and it worked like a charm. I designed a little
outboard VFO (plans available upon request) which he built and which let
him copy CW.

His has been a coded-Tech since shortly after that experience.
(Not particularly active, but licensed, nevertheless!)

--Myron.
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