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Re: Topband: Preamp info wanted

To: <topband@contesting.com>,"W0UN -- John Brosnahan" <shr@swtexas.net>
Subject: Re: Topband: Preamp info wanted
From: "Harold Smith" <w0rihps@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:43:20 -0500
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John:

That sounds like a W1FB preamp that was in QST in August 1988.
I have the article and will scan it for you if you want.

73 Price W0RI


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W0UN -- John Brosnahan" <shr@swtexas.net>
To: <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 9:15 AM
Subject: Topband: Preamp info wanted


>I ran across an old preamp in my junk box and I am trying to
> find the source of the design, so I can modify it for AM BC DX.
> 
> It has an MPF102 JFET first stage and an MC1350 8-pin DIP
> IF amp chip second stage.  (Way too much gain.)  The front has
> a gain pot as well as a toggle switch to select between two
> input toroidal coils with compression trimmers.  One set for
> 160M and the other for 80M.  The output has a toroidal core
> transformer.
> 
> It is built on a circuit board and clearly assembled by ME since
> the panel is in my handwriting.  But I don't recall where the
> design came from.
> 
> I have to think it was in some popular magazine or handbook,
> and it must have been a serious enough project for someone
> to make circuit boards available.   I probably built this in the
> mid/late 1980s or so.
> 
> Much of my library is still at the Colorado QTH so I have been
> unable to do a complete search of my own data.  Anyone have
> any idea where this was published and can anyone steer me to
> a copy or scan it for me?
> 
> Thanks  -- John  W0UN
> 
> It has been suggested that it might be the KD9SV design -- but that
> is a single stage IGFET rather than this 2-stage JFET/IC design.
> 
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