[Boatanchors] 6BE6 VFO/Mixer Tube

[Lee Buller]

I am trying to figure out how the 6BE6 works with a VFO and a mixer in the same tube.  

1.  Where is the output of the VFO or oscillator?
2.  isn't the output of the plate of the 6BE6 the sum or minus of the two signals coming in?  The one from the previous amplifier and the VFO?
3.  Where would you pick off RF or use a counter probe to see what the VFO is doing?

It seems the 6BE6 was being used like this in a score of old receivers.  I get the tube is using feeback through the cathode...but I just don't get the output of the VFO?  Where is that?  For instance...the Drake 2B.

Lee - K0WA


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