NoGa Compendium Volume 1 - 2001
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NoGa has completed a new publication that has 14 of it's best club projects.  These projects include:   NoGa/Georgia Cracker 80M Transmitter, The NOGAnaut - A Y2K Ready Amateur Radio Transmitter, The NoGaPiG - NoGa Power Indicator/Guard, The PGR80 - A Pretty Good Receiver for 80 Meters, The Georgia Sierra (uses standard frequency crystals), The NoGaWaTT swr/pwr Meter, W3IRZ 12-volt Regenerative Receiver, Converting the MRX-40 to 80-meters, The NoGa Twin Tube 80, AFA for the Georgia Sierra, The Little Thirty TERD, Revisiting the Resonant Feed-line Dipole, Converting the SMK-1 Transceiver to Superhet, Adding Boots To Your NoGaNaught.

This publication is 117 pages of fun packed information with schematics, pictures, assembly instructions, tips and errata.  It is professionally produced in a spiral bound manual that will lie flat when you are building.  Pricing Information

 

ERRATA
  1. NoGa/Georgia Cracker 80 Transmitter

This project was originally a "use what you have" project. We have had inquiries as to recommended values for some of the components that were not specifically identified in the article. Here are our recommendations:

    1. Output Transistor – 2N3866, BFQ163, 2N3053, 2SC799 (or any similar).
    2. Zener Diode - 1N475A 39v originally but anything from 33-39 will do. ½ or 1 watt.
    3. Variable cap C3 - Anything from 200 pf to 400 pf will do.
    4. Keying transistor -A 2N4036 is shown (not clearly) and the 2N3906 and 2N4403 (or similar) will work fine. This is just a keying circuit so not critical.
    5. Wire sizes -On transformer and filter inductor. Not critical but the article does call for #26 on L1 and L2 (tuned by the variable cap c#) and #22 on L3. Other sizes in this area will work with slightly different results.

this page updated 11/24/05