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Return
We returned the midget monster with thanks and eagerly moved back among our economy-sized apparatus, choosing to be surrounded by our station. The v.f.o. is here, the rest of the exciter is up there, the driver is down here, and the final is in there. The t.r. switch is under this, the antenna coupler is over there, and the audio section is around somewhere. The power supplies are well distributed, and we can still monitor our keying by the blue pulsations of picturesque 83s and 816s. The receiver? Here we're even neater. The crystal front end is boxed at left, the tuned i.f. strip is in that one-pound coffee can, and the audio is—well, it may be in that two-pound cookie tin at right. Not sure of those other boxes and chassis till we take another inventory. When the next issue of QST arrives we'll be in there with our soldering stuff to try a suggested circuit or two. Plenty of elbow room, so we won't need a microscope for the job.—Rod Newkirk, W9BRD, "How's DX?," QST, January 1964
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