Jeff Tranter's Blog

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction and fantasy writing. The awards are named after...

I don't consider myself an expert by any means, but after making over 100 YouTube videos I can think of a few tips that will help improv...

I recently put together an interesting little piece of test equipment. It is a simple curve tracer, sometimes called a V/I curve tracer o...

I did further testing of the restored unit, measuring voltages against the manual, and they all looked okay. The unit was speced at op...

Initial powerup tests are good and indicate that it is producing output on all four bands. I powered is up slowly with a Variac and the...

The last stage of assembly is the wiring of the oscillator and bandswitch coils on the top of the chassis. Most of this is done with h...

I finished up the next set of assembly instructions  - the wiring around the final amplifier tube. The last toroid is another large one...