I owned a Viking II many, many years ago, around 1964. It was a solid work
horse. I remember reading about a way of driving the Viking II with a
Central Labs SSB 10a or 10b exciter and using it on sideband. The trick was
adjusting the grid current or something to run the Viking II finals in Class
AB1, as I recall, to be able to use it on SSB. The finals in the Viking II
normally ran in Class C operation, of course, which doesn't work for SSB. I
wish I could remember the details of how I did that now, but it has just
been too many years ago. I remember that the method used was pretty
controversial at the time. I had an old local ham tell me that it couldn't
be done, but I did it. I believe there was an article in 73 magazine that
described how to do it. 

Ron, K8HSY



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Subject: Re: Johnson Viking II

I had one back in the day and one again perhaps twenty years ago.  Enjoyed
them both a lot!
Pat, K9JAUAt 09:03 AM 5/7/2014, you wrote:
>I had a Valiant. Sold it to a friend of mine who used it on teletype 
>for fifteen years.
>Albert, W A 7 F X B
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>From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 9:38 AM
>Subject: Re: Johnson Viking II
>
>
> > Not nearly but it was cheaper and had an onboard VFO.  Fragile 
> > modulation transformer but got a whole lot of hams on the air!