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!
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?).
I 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. Pete
Ooo! I really like that front panel! What’s that cranberry-like color called? Juliberry Red? Craniano Red?