Nostaglia!

[Joe Buch]

At 12:12 1/6/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Well, I got my Ranger working a while ago. Used it for the first time on 40CW
>the other night...and got the first OO report I have received in 40 years! For
>Chirp! Must have been a BAer, as he suggested running the Ranger VFO on 160 for
>40. Anyone tried that? Seems to only chirp on 40M.
>
Seems like a good recommendation.  I remember a chirpy VFO on a Ranger I
used back in the 1950's.  The problem is caused by RF feedback into the
oscillator when it is running on the same frequency as the output.  When the
VFO operates on 160 it is not susceptible to the strong RF on 7 MHz.  I
always designed the homebrew rigs I built in that era to at least double the
frequency between the VFO and the final RF frequency.

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