VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

I was a shock yesterday to hear Doug's is SK. it was a real downer. I didn't believe it at first and frantically looks around on the net trying to confirm the news. It was Johns VK5DJ web site that confirmed it to me. I looked forward to talking to Doug each year at Gippstech at the dinner and I onl...

Hi.

Im restoring a Heathkit GR-54 receiver I purchased from the USA.

Does anyone have a original manual I can copy.

All the ones I find on the internet are bad copies and have lots of pages missing.
No body seem to have the construction details.

Regards Adrian.

Some photos

Site towers showing 1/2wave ringo and equipment rack

6M repeater is up on air again. Replacement stop gap antenna fitted, SWR a bit to high. 60watt PA put back in, getting 42 watts on the antenna side of the cavities. Antenna is a ringo 1/2 with ground radials. 40m run of LDF440. May have to consider CTCSS on the squelch circuit, or a way of switching...

A replacment antenna has been found. its a second hand ex military 5/8 antenna. Its fully grounded with ground plane radials "heavy duty" Im hope this week will be a good week to rig it. We had not feed back from any antenna manufacturers to date either. 73's Adrian VK5ZBR and Rod VK5UDX

If we talk to Col nicely linking is really easy. 6M box has all the bit for linking built it. I also have a Xband controller in the shed that use to link 6 and 70cm together. This box adds control to the link if wanted. We need TX RX audio, PTT neg logic and SQL positive logic. Audio is at 0dbM. Im ...

Yea mine died a few month's ago.

Got new transistors and a bigger diode to replace the U/S ones.

it was under a 2amp load most of it life 24hrs a day.

its super quite when its working.

73's Adrian