On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:04:59 -0000, "Airy R. Bean"
wrote:

.....is that we club together and conceive of a design
for an HF transceiver that could form the basis of the
station of any budding Radio Ham.

Excellent idea. Let's make it a high-quality job, though;
uncompromising on sensitivity/selectivity/noise etc. And use
ubiquitous, easily-available components that will be around for the
foreseeable future to come to permit serviceability over the long
term!
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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.