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jonboy55
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Post subject: Allied Knight R-100 Receiver Posted: Sep Fri 11, 2009 1:54 am |
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I'm repairing this Allied Knight R-100 ham receiver. It's the first one I've ever seen.
Who ever built the kit did a nice job.
This one didn't come with the optional S-Meter or crystal calibrator.
Made around 1960. It has 9 tubes.
Very cool looking.

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hbr nut
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Post subject: Posted: Sep Fri 11, 2009 6:45 pm |
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Joined: Jan Sat 12, 2008 12:25 am Posts: 235 Location: Kingwood, Texas
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My novice receiver was a Knight R-100A. I've always considered it a sleeper. It was a lot of receiver for the money. Most of the inexpensive single conversion receivers I've tuned from this period go deaf above 15 MC or so. Not this one. It has plenty of sensitivity all the way thru 10 meters. The Q-multiplier worked well, and image rejection was about what you would expect. It was a little flimsy on the mechanical side of things, but hey, it was a $100 radio.
You'll like it.
Darrell
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mikhail7
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Post subject: Posted: Sep Wed 16, 2009 2:06 am |
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Joined: Feb Mon 04, 2008 5:12 am Posts: 1250 Location: Nowhere, I'm gone
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Nice clean little unit. Looks pretty straight forward.
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Alan Douglas
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Post subject: Posted: Sep Wed 16, 2009 5:37 pm |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 25381 Location: Pocasset, Cape Cod, MA
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My first radio was an R-100, and I still have it, though I haven't run it in years.
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Jim Koehler
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Post subject: Posted: Sep Thu 17, 2009 2:38 am |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 3781 Location: Freeport, LI, New York 11520
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I got one for Xmas.... I think it was in '67.
Just got my Novice then. Not really any kind of radio for commo work. I told Dad about this and and he agreed. Traded it for a used HQ-110....and he picked it out!
The Eico 723 looked puny next to this radio!
But with the 2 el quad on 15, I worked the world!
_________________ "Resistance may be futile but capacitance has potential"
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Curt Reed
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Post subject: Posted: Sep Thu 17, 2009 2:13 pm |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 20548 Location: Sandpoint, IDAHO 83864
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I knew a ham who built an R-100 back when he was a novice, sometime around 1962 or 1963, as he got his license a couple years before I did. He was a retired RMC (radioman, chief) from the Navy and spent 30+ years in the Navy, so he knew how to do an expert job building it from a kit.
He passed away about six years ago and that R-100 was still on his operating bench and still was used, but it was no longer his main receiver.
Curt
_________________ Curt, N7AH
(Connoisseur of the cold 807) CW forever!
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Arnie-AE
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Post subject: Posted: Sep Thu 17, 2009 5:48 pm |
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Joined: Aug Tue 18, 2009 1:46 pm Posts: 550 Location: Berlin, MA
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It looks like the chassis was cleaned down about an inch on the back and the rest left with grime still on it. If you did the cleaning, could you share what cleaning method you used?
thanks,
arnie - W1GCI
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Dean Huster
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Post subject: Posted: Sep Sat 19, 2009 5:16 am |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 2219 Location: Harviell MO USA 63945 (12 miles S of Poplar Bluff)
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I saw the brown knob at the top between the main and bandspread tuning knobs and was wondering what that was for. I looked at my R100A and decided that must be the ANTENNA tuning knob which is located on the top row of knobs to the right of the Q-multiplier switch on the R100A. I guess you need a correct replacement knob there or why is it otherwise brown?
I bought my R100A back around 1966 for $99.95 and added the S8A speaker, S meter and crystal calibrator to the package. My best friend already had an R55A and when he saw my R100A, his comment was "My gosh, it's BIG!" And it is a LOT larger than the R55A, although the R55A had a 6-meter band in addition to the normal .55 - 30 MHz spread.
For the money, it was a lot of receiver, especially back in 1965. I had no signal generator when I built the receiver and band "C" never had good sensitivity. It wasn't until I was in the Navy in 1976 (after 10 years of putting up with it) that I did a realignment with an hp 8640B and discovered that for all these years, band "C" was originally aligned on an image frequency. After proper realignment, band "C" was just as "hot" as the other three bands. I only just bought a used synthesized replacement HF receiver for it about two years ago. There's still something wonderful listening to the sound of rotating that main tuning knob through a crowded band that the synthesized receiver will never give me!
_________________ Dean, Electronics Curmudgeon Contributing editor emeritus in Poptronics magazine, R.I.P.
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Mbird97x
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Post subject: Posted: Sep Sat 19, 2009 10:47 am |
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Arnie-AE wrote: It looks like the chassis was cleaned down about an inch on the back and the rest left with grime still on it. If you did the cleaning, could you share what cleaning method you used?
thanks,
arnie - W1GCI
I think it looks like what you're seeing is where the cabinet covers part of the chassis.
_________________ Gary
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Dave Doughty
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Post subject: Posted: Sep Sat 19, 2009 12:42 pm |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 18167 Location: Utica, NY 13502 (USA)
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Dean Huster wrote: I saw the brown knob at the top between the main and bandspread tuning knobs and was wondering what that was for. I looked at my R100A and decided that must be the ANTENNA tuning knob which is located on the top row of knobs to the right of the Q-multiplier switch on the R100A.
Strange as it may seem, my R-100A also has a brown antenna tuning knob above the tuning dials just like in the picture. It might have been a design afterthought but I think a black knob with silver insert would look better.
I'm confused about what you are describing in your second sentence. Seems like the knob to the right of the "Null-Off-Peak" Q-multiplier switch is the "BFO-MVC-AVC-ANL" control. Are you saying your set has the antenna tune control there instead?
Dave
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K4NYW
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Post subject: Posted: Oct Fri 02, 2009 3:23 pm |
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K4NYW
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Post subject: Posted: Oct Fri 02, 2009 3:39 pm |
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cabletek73
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Post subject: excellent information Posted: Oct Wed 14, 2009 6:50 pm |
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Joined: Oct Wed 14, 2009 6:43 pm Posts: 1
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Wanted to thank the group for some very good information and links regarding the R100A. I recently found one with matching S-8A speaker in very good condition at an estate sale for $25.00 - It seems to work well but Im in the process of getting it to a tech friend for a "check-up". Was curious if I could find a replacement S-Meter cover for it as mine has 2 cracks in it... but otherwise looks good.
What I thought was really cool was that the "custom built by" sticker on the side of the radio that must have been included with the set when new has the callsign WN2LIQ on it with the name of the builder. I havent had too much luck ID'ing that old call... Anyone have any hints, I thought that was as cool as the finding the radio.
Have a good day!
Rod
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Don
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Post subject: Posted: Oct Wed 14, 2009 8:54 pm |
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Joined: Dec Sat 30, 2006 9:03 pm Posts: 104 Location: Melrose, NY
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Cabletek73,
WN2LIQ would have morphed into WA2LIQ in those days
if the op upgraded. My '71 call book lists WA2LIQ as
Merry A Tappen
200 Rano Blvd
Vestal, NY 13850 (near Binghamton)
HTH,
_________________ Don, WA2YQY@cs.com
Im ächten Mann ist ein Kind versteckt.
Das will spielen. -Nietzsche
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Jack Shirley
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Post subject: Posted: Oct Thu 15, 2009 1:58 am |
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I probably shouldn't question a WA2 but I recall that by 1971 they were well into the WB2s. I suspect WB2LIQ. That would have been a very new call in 71, may not have made it into the callbook.
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Curt Reed
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Post subject: Posted: Oct Thu 15, 2009 1:04 pm |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 20548 Location: Sandpoint, IDAHO 83864
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Not to go off topic, but one of the things about ham radio that I used to enjoy was guessing the dates that a person was licensed. I got to be pretty close on most guesses with hams in the seventh district as I knew hams that got their licenses in such years as 1938, 1940, 1946 and whatever.
Sadly the FCC removed my source of fun when they adopted the vanity call sign system. So a call nowadays does not mean squat about how long it has been held by a particular person. Heck, some of the guys I tested as a VE are now sporting call signs that go way back before I was even born!
Curt
_________________ Curt, N7AH
(Connoisseur of the cold 807) CW forever!
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Don
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Post subject: Posted: Oct Thu 15, 2009 4:46 pm |
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Joined: Dec Sat 30, 2006 9:03 pm Posts: 104 Location: Melrose, NY
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Jack, you're right. There is a listing for WB2LIQ. It was at the
top of the next column, and I missed it.
Robert G Berrington
562 Long Pond Road
Rochester, NY 14612
Edit: According to a name search on the ARRL web site,
WB2LIQ is now KC7BDL. Nothing further on WA2LIQ.
_________________ Don, WA2YQY@cs.com
Im ächten Mann ist ein Kind versteckt.
Das will spielen. -Nietzsche
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Dean Huster
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Post subject: Posted: Oct Fri 16, 2009 3:20 am |
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Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 2219 Location: Harviell MO USA 63945 (12 miles S of Poplar Bluff)
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Sorry to take so long to get back to this thread, Dave. On the R100A, the "ANTENNA" tuning knob is directly above the "BFO" frequency adjust knob in line with the upper row of knobs. It has a metal flexible shaft from knob to tuning capacitor.
_________________ Dean, Electronics Curmudgeon Contributing editor emeritus in Poptronics magazine, R.I.P.
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