You can build your rectifier assembly for a fraction of what others are
charging.
Get a piece of flat plastic (nylon, delrin, HDPE or anything drillable) and
drill a series of holes spaced a bit farther than the length of a 6A10
diode. Using a nut and bolt, install a ground lug in each hole and solder
the 6A10s from lug to lug (see note below). Mount the plastic to your
chassis using insulating standoffs. Simple as can be.
eBay is a good source of small plastic pieces, or the plastic cutting boards
(HDPE) sold at any variety store are good too.
A couple of cautions:
1. Some plastics will melt at soldering temperature, so you may want to do
the soldering before fastening the ground lugs down.
2. If you buy the 6A10s all together so they come from the same
manufacturing batch, you won't need equalizing resistors. They will be
closely matched enough.
You can use this same concept for mounting your filter capacitors.
Spend the money you saved on antennas. That will help your signal far more
than some fancy rectifier assembly. :-)
73, Bill W6WRT
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