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Transformer. 1500 Watt CCS core. 1250 VAC. |

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Gathering likely components.
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Setting components out. |

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See how they fit into box. |

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HT compartment. |

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Looks about right. |

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Box has been dismantled, panels etched in caustic and reassembled. |

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Papst blower and tube in place. |

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Coming together. |

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Coming together.
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Pi network hardware. |

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Cathode compartment with filament choke and B minus line choke. |

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Another view of the cathode and filament.
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Filament transformer. |

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Getting the hardware in place. |

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Selectable zener diodes for bias. |

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160 metres tuned Pi network. |

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Cathode compartment.
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Grid protection circuit board. |

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Completed board for relay trip and indicator leds.
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Front panel, raw state, sprayed with etch primer. |

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Front panel lettered and controls mounted. |

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Hole for future bandswitch. |

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My pet hate, wiring. Front panel to main chassis
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HV supply and grid trip relay |

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Step start relay supply and grid trip relay.
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Over all view |

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Business end
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Finished front view |

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another front view
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Back view showing exhaust |

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Front showing air inlets
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June 10, 2006 Hamfest |
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Amp on display at the convention and home brew contest |

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First place certificate and new soldering station and driver set prizes
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Closeup of first place certificate |

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Restored AR7 at the fest.
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Replica working crystal set built from a book article circa
1906.All the brasswork and the case is home made.For effort I would have
judged it the winner. |

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Some of the tables
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Some of the tables |

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Some of the tables
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Alan |

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A few friends at the front door
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