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  1. 12-07-2011, 05:30 PM #1
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    Knight Star Roamer

    I finally got around to repairing the little Knight Star Roamer receiver that I bought at a yard sale last summer for 8 bucks. After a clean up, I had to re string the dial cord. When the receiver was turned on it just hummed. Tests indicated the 4 section paper electrolytic filter cap wasn't doing anything but taking up space on the chassis. I replaced it with 4 new caps. I also replace the old selenium rectifier with a new 1N5408 diode. Then I hit all the pots and switches with Deoxit D5. I have been DXing the AM broadcast band with it hooked up to my inverted vee. It's amazing such a simple design can work so well.
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  2. 12-07-2011, 05:35 PM #2
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    Man, that cleaned uo nicely. It is amazing how well the old radios work. Good job.
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  3. 12-07-2011, 05:36 PM #3
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    Nice job! I can only pick out two new caps, though.
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  4. 12-07-2011, 06:05 PM #4
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    Lookin' good! Thanks for the pix.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Nice job! I can only pick out two new caps, though.
    The 33 @ 160 and 47 @ 50 are pretty small.
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  6. 12-07-2011, 06:44 PM #6
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    Very nice!
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  7. 12-08-2011, 01:02 AM #7
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    Nice Star Roamer! Some older bros from the family album.

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    Do you wanna Roam the Stars, Span the Space, Master the Span, or Hop the Ocean? I built an Ocean Hopper in 6th grade,my first shortwave receiver, and went for the complete coil kit. Notice the Long Wave plug in coil is 79 cents vs 65 cents for the others. If you wanna hear those frantic international distress calls, you gotta pay the piper, not to mention the coil winder with Litz wire patience. While the top of the line Span Master was futuristically tempting, I confess the O-Hopper's baroque trap door and retro plug in coils caught my eye something wicked. The vanilla Space Spanner gave you budget bandswitching, but... I do recall the Spanner being the spotlight project of a later iteration of the Boys' Book of Radio & Electronics, which represented some supplemental instructions if ya got in a jam, but....it was about as spacey as Buster Crabbe's Flash Gordon, without the flat out Captains Courageous old school swashbuckle of the Hopper, goofy name and all.

    $2.00 down. Anyone buy any of these on time?
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  9. 12-08-2011, 04:21 AM #9
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    I've got a copy of that Allied catalog I got on eBay, complete with order forms. Always wondered what would happen I I ordered on on the time payment plan today? Would the original order form have special properties in it that would transport back to the day? And I'd get the treasure by return mail?
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