New piece of CB gear - purists are gonna cry

[kb2vxa]

STONER? If you accidentally let the smoke out stick your head over the radio and breathe deeply. Recycled smoke has its uses. Anyway, if you're going to so much trouble to design a micro for it the rest better be made out of gold. Oh, if you hear lightning crashes on 11 or 10M the storm is too close for comfort.

[NY4Q]

Speaking of letting the smoke out :

I worked in a radio shop when I was taking electronics courses back when I was a youngster, and one day I was working on something and got a test lead across the MAIN input and it vaporized the lead tip and I had my head stuck right up in there trying to look in the case. WELP, when it arched, I gasped and sucked in that lead (now in a gaseous form) and that like to have choked my ass to death. That was one more nasty hit.

[N8YX]

It's so darn Ten Tec looking... ;)

I noticed that. Dave, where do you think I could get a few enclosures of the same style?

[WØTKX]

Hammond, man, Hammond.

[kb2vxa]

Looks like you live up to your call, BBQ! Lead vapor is the kind this guy would smoke, when he wasn't welding galvanized pipe with his breath... <ffffft> like Godzilla... <fffft> ... (hhhh)... it gives off deadly fumes. Long story about my old CB alter egos from back in the daze, here's an air check of the only one recorded. Pardon the holes in the audio, too close to the mic without a pop screen tends to drive a peak limiter into the ground.

We now return control of the thread to you, until next time, when CB takes you to...........The Outer Limits.

[N8YX]

#367 has arrived and was placed on the bench last evening. 12v power supply is out - parts inbound.

Dave, that's exactly what I'm looking for in the way of cabinets. Now turn the hat trick: Stoner used aluminum extrusions for decoration and to tie the various cabinet sections together. The corner pieces are what's known as double flange while the section between the display and the front control panel is an h-channel. Problem is, they're the ornamental type - instead of the commonly available heavy structural variety.

Know a good source for the decorative version...which will accept a panel of ~16ga thickness?

[N8YX]

#439 showed up yesterday.

This puppy is going to need some help.

[N8YX]

#367's receiver is back in operation. Got the 7815 regulators I needed, removed the bad one from the power supply board and replaced with a good part. +5 and +12 now present, but no +9v...and the +20v line was getting dragged down lower than I cared for.

Checking the 9v supply line, I measured 140 ohms to ground at the 7808 regulator. Comparing that reading with a check of #439's board - which did seem to function correctly - shows the circuit connected to the 9v regulator output terminal ought to read ~8k ohms.

It was getting late. A board swap will confirm my suspicions - and it did. After a bit of adjustment to the various oscillators and AGC circuitry I now have a functional radio.

I need to check the oscillators and timebase reference with a frequency counter then verify transmitter performance but I think this one is good to go in the receive department.

A bunch of knobs and crystal filters are inbound for the next phase of this project. #439's destiny will be as a FrankenRadio.

[WØTKX]

Checking with Google -Fu search term:

metal H channel for panels

H channels are available from a few sources, but usually for large orders. A few "hits" below...

http://www.johnsonrollforming.com/di...N2/category/33

http://www.brunnerent.com/Tools/Port...0&lngDisplay=0

There are some in plastics (omit the word metal in above search) as well, which might work OK...

http://displayproductsonline.com/ext...annel-278.html

Have fun obsessing over all that. ;)

[n2ize]

I would crank that thang, run it into a 100000 jigapill DAVE MADE amp and get on da bowl wid all em Jigawatts.