Supersonic Conquest radio's PR80 and PR80C

[BusyBee]

So here's where Im at...  PCB done and donor coil/cores ready to wind.  3D printed bobbins and purchase most the components although I wasnt real happy with hFe readings on some of the germaniums.

It's a nice looking board

hFe readings on Germaniums generally are very low as compared to current silicon. Modern meters often don't cope with them either. I think it's probably their very high leakage, numbers of microamps, as compared to hFe's often of twenty or less. Power transistors can be even worse.

I have an old analogue meter which tests them Ok but when I tried some with a modern digital meter I had I got no sensible readings.

Tracy