Another Mystery Radio - ID?

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

BTW, when did you move to Seattle? I ask because I looked at your listing on the Buckmaster ham radio callsign server today and found that WA2ISE is still listed as being in Oradell, New Jersey. Did you move west just recently?

I'm just here in Seattle on a short term job assignment, which will end next month. Then I'll be back to NJ.

The FM tuner is not that bad, but not excellent either. I am some 40 miles from Cleveland's FM stations; this tuner won't get any of them in stereo using a standard T-dipole antenna. I bought a Terk tower AM/FM antenna which works better, but when using the amplifier, I have to be careful not to run the gain control too high, or else it overloads the tuner something terrible-

Sounds like FM tuners I had back in the 70's. Ones with bipolar transistor FM RF amp stages in the front end. In one I changed the bipolar to an FET, and got the overload problems under control (when you're 14 miles line of sight from NYC's Empire State Building, where all the FM stations transmit from, you get a lot of signal). Though I later heard that I could have done the same thing just by increasing the current thru the bipolar instead.

Originally Posted by David Roper

Invariably C6 bulbs were in an 8-lamp string. They were designed to operate at 14-15 volts.

I had several strings of these lights, and I usually added more bulbs to the strings to drop the voltage seen by each bulb. Or use a rectifier diode to make the line voltage "look like" 85V instead of 120V (half power, which is not the same as half voltage if the resistance is the same. It's V^2/R=power, and 85^2 = (120^2)/2