Anyone anting to put 6m beacons on the air, I have quite a few 8 MHz crystals close to the required 8.345 MHz. Many are not listed on my web pages yet... this...
.....and at $162 the "Reserve is not Met". It is a nice looking one though. I sure remember seeing them at swapmeets for $10 ....and going unsold. 73 Kees...
I have a pair of the 365 air variables to install, There is a height issue with the alignment of the output shaft. I see at one point there was a spacer...
Should be fine if you use a short , stout connection to chassis ground. John K5MO ... -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. ...
The spacers that I made are 3/8" thick x 1 1/8" wide x 2 7/8" long this was to avoid adding additional holes to the chassis. I used sheet metal screws counter...
Wow, 400 bux! Kinda takes your breath away, don't it? Gee, that's the territory unbuilt kits were in not too long ago. Someone wanted a nice AC-1 real bad. ...
I have std round and hex spacers. Some are female-female some are male-female. Most of them are 6/32, a few are 4/40 and then I have some stragglers at 8 & 10....
Thanks Mark for the offer, The standoffs spacers that you have would require me to place new holes in the chassis so I think I am going to go ahead with the...
... From: Mark W1EOF [mailto:w1eof@...] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 1:30 AM To: amecoac1@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [amecoac1] Re: Spacers for...
$400? Must be the season. Someone intends to enjoy some nostalgic CW fun in the winter ahead. I guess the paint is good and the underchassis seems quite nice...
That is the same key Ameco (or more accurately, Morse Express) is selling these days, the typical Japanese Ball Bearing straight key. What I found unusual is...
Anyone collect all-things Ameco? I found two HP-45 high-pass filters. It's a 1.25" square piece of circuit bd material with what looks like two caps and two...
I have for sale some of the bi-pin connectors that plug into the octal socket on the AC-1. As far as I can tell, these gadgets are unobtanium these days. They...
What guage wire should I be using for the coil form? The assembly instructions do not specify. I was able to get 30 , 26, 22 awg coated magnet type wire from...
What guage wire should I be using for the coil form? The assembly instructions do not specify. I was able to get 30 , 26, 22 awg coated magnet type wire from...
Use the red #22 if you can, it's closest to the original kit. Everyone has their own way of winding. Mine is to cut a length of wire and anchor one end to the...
The Ameco instructions indicate #22. For 80 meters, start at prong 2, come out of the lower hole in the form, wind 28-1/2 turns, go through the upper hole in ...
It is much easier to get the windings straight and close together if you stretch the wire before winding. Take your length of wire and fasten one end in an...
Try using Scotch double-sided tape on the form. That works very well for holding windings in place. In the Ameco kit, I believe ribbed forms were provided. 73...
FWIW, the original Amphenol acrylic forms supplied in the kits were smooth walled. However, as far as I have been able to determine, they were pre-drilled...
When I built my kit a hundred years ago, I used a dab of nail polish to hold the windings in place. The forms did have pre-drilled holes. 73 Bill Ripley, KY5Q...
Looking at all the gorgeous photos of everyone else's AC-1's and clones, sure makes me drift back to my novice days. It was back around 1968 when I built mine....
Pretty! Nice classic station! I have to admit that pictures like these (especially from the old magazines) turned me into a collecting (or should we say,...
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