Restoring a Vintage Transmitter - The Johnson Ranger Edition with Dr. Greg Latta

Have you finally worked up enough courage to restore your old boat anchor ham transmitter, but you're unsure where to begin? Join Greg Latta, AA8V, as he shows how to correct the ravages of time and a previous owner in a Johnson Viking Ranger AM-CW transmitter, without killing yourself in the process.



The Johnson Viking Ranger was THE rig to have if you were on AM phone in the1950s. It was capable of 75 watts input on CW and 65 watts input on AM, could operate on all bands from 160m through 10m, and had a built in VFO. The Ranger was plate modulated, unlike many of the wimpy, carrier controlled screen modulated transmitters of the time. It had a robust, choke input power supply and a powerful modulator that could put out more than enough power to fully modulate the single 6146 final amplifier.

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Beautiful. Nice job, and great work by @AA8V