[600MRG] RAKs and such - ballast tube.

[Sandy Blaize]

I have  an RAL-7, but it is far from pristine!  The RAL is a very 
unusual receiver.  Probably the finest TRF/Regen receiver I have EVER used!
As a teen ager I thought it was "clunky", old and obsolete.  Who wants a 
receiver that isn't even calibrated and has only a logging scale for 
reference!!!  I WAS stupid in my teen age years as I could have probably 
bought a brand new RAL-7 in the crate for $30 or less.  People used to 
bring them to hamfests for sale and dumped them in the dumpsters rather 
than lug them back home again!
I have NEVER seen any other receiver that you could rely on to find a 
frequency that you needed to find and exactly!  Even on SSB!  The old 
Navy CPO's LOVED them.  It took me YEARS to find out why when I finally 
got one!

Are there any guys with "junkers-parts units" around?  I need one coil 
(RF amplifier coil) for mine that is in the 2 Mhz region.  Need to get 
the info again for a search to find a replacement one.  Also looking for 
a regeneration control.  Mine is almost getting ready to crap out.  I
plan it to eventually be in a new ham shack in the main house with a 
Collins TCS transmitter which I like very much for CW on 160-30 meters.

Take care all.

73,

Sandy W5TVW

On 11/3/2014 2:27 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 3 Nov 2014 at 14:59, Bill Cromwell wrote:
>
>> Hi Rudy,
>>
>> My RAK is all original AND I use the original power supply. We can pull
>> the ballast tube out of those (unless we are going into naval combat).
>> That leaves a pretty much standard B+ with a voltage regulator - two of
>> the three original tubes. You just unplug that ballast tube pull it and store it
>> someplace 'safe'.
> Ha! Youse guys... (shakes head...)
>
> You don't have to remove that ballast tube: there is a switch down at the
> bottom, inside, that simply turns it off. That way you can "store" the ballast
> tube in the power supply.
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
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