Pete Juliano is amazing. He is admirably carrying a very heavy load of family responsibilities. But he still can build some really unique and innovative rigs. He tells us that getting up at 3 am and only sleeping 5 hours per night allows him to do this.
Pete also blames Grayson Evans KJ7UM for this rig, what with the thrematrons and all. Pete has a 7360 mixer in this rig, something that Grayson had in the 3rd edition of his Hollow-State Design book (get yours here: https://www.ermag.com/product/hollow-state-design-2nd-edition/). Pete reports that he first built the chassis for the tube (I mean thermatron) portion of the rig in the 1970s -- it has been in his junkbox ever since. Grayson admires Pete's compact construction and point-to-point wiring.
I too noticed very poor conditions on Field Day this year.
Three cheers for Pete Juliano!
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Love the rig and the construction (really crammed point-to-point, reminds me of commercial rigs of the 60's)! Hopefully the mixer is a 6JH8, the much improved 7360, but the 7360 will work OK. The display really has me tempted to forget my slide-rule dial project. It looks really nice, especially with the red panel (what about dark red plexiglass?).
ReplyDeleteI saw the 7360 in the publication but shifted to the 6JH8 used as the Balanced Modulator. Only 9 tubes including a 12AV6 for tone generation.
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Ooo! I really like that front panel! What's that cranberry-like color called? Juliberry Red? Craniano Red?
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