... Hi guys, I have a TX-86 with the manual... I'll look tonight to see if the assembly instructions are included. If they are I can upload them to the group...
Hi Skipp, Thanks for the offer! Even the manual would be appreciated, kit or not. 73.......Steve Smith WB6TNL ... From: "skipp025" <skipp025@...> To:...
Skip! Thanks in advance! It would be good to have the regular manual as well so even if it doesn't have the assembly instructions, up load it please! Thanks.....
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the amecoac1 group. File : /TX-86ckt.pdf ...
... I've uploaded a copy of the circuit diagram for the TX-86. It will be at least another week before I have time to scan the manual and make it available,...
I was given a fairly functional R5 receiver but the dial cord is gone. Can a R5 owner out there takes some pix or sketch out the dial cord path? Greatly...
Some of you may remember the Scrounger, a 6V6 based xmtr from Sep '64 Electronics Illustrated. I have a web page on it. http://radiosky.com/scrounge.htm...
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Makes me think of my old Ameco AC-1 with my Heathkit GR-54 RX and long wire antenna snaked through shrubs and trees to...
Bill,      Man you just reminded me of people and things that I thought were long forgotten.  The crux of the matter is that society has just dumbed...
I actually built the scrounger when I was a teenager in New Orleans (WN5MRL) - what a lot of fun! I used it with an S-38 receiver. Got an "Official Observer"...
Anyone know what I need to do to adapt a modern QRP keyer to the AC-1 (or similar glow bugs) without blowing something up? I have the AAØZZ EZKeyer from Four...
Owner of my third AC-1. First two were back in the late 60's/early 70's. What a trip down memory lane last night as I had my first AC-1 QSO since the 1970's. ...
Thanks for posting this! When I was a 12 year old newly licensed license I was given a bunch of ham magazines and this happened to be one of them. I started...
This reminds me of something that is in the FAQs but may not have been read: Do NOT use a metal 6X5 in an un-modified AC-1!! The designer(s) used pin 1 of the...
Thanks Gary, If you have any pictures of your scrounger, i sure would like to post one. I know, we weren't so photograph crazy back then, but maybe... I have...
If you like building stuff, check out "cathode-keyer-w-text.jpg" in the FILES section. It's simple and you could sub the IRF530 for the IRF730, the 530 has the...
I saw that several years ago, I think I was directed there by Steve Smith, I built a copy, and then after I realised it worked, I gave it away as I did not...
Years ago (decades actually), I built my first rig. It was a one-tube transmitter from the "Other Handbook" (Collins) available at that time. Being a...
Check THIS out! http://www.wa0itp.com/ac-1.html You guys & gals in range of Branson, MO could score big! (With what this kit is worth it should have been the...
Thank you, Steve. 73, Lou VE3AWA ... From: Steve Smith To: amecoac1@yahoogroups.com Sent: 2012-03-12 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [amecoac1] A bit of history pse Hi...
Hi again, I should also have referenced the Electric Radio article which can be found in the "Files" section; <AC1a.jpg> and <AC1b.jpg>. Have fun and ...
Tks again Steve. Looking forward to reading it. Lou ... From: Steve Smith To: amecoac1@yahoogroups.com Sent: 2012-03-12 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [amecoac1] A bit...
Steve: A few years ago I bought an AC-1 from an estate which had a 40/80 band slide switch mounted in a small metal bracket that also heald a taped coil where...
Hi Ron, That is the last model made. Here, we call it the "Type 3" to differentiate it from the others. The "Type 1" was the earliest AC-1 model with single...
