Hi Jeff Edmonson, hope you are having a nice day
 >> Hello!  I have built the ramsey hr-40 reciever kit and
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JE> A little Op-Amp might be the trick.... there are several circuits around 
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JE> out the very generic 741 operational amplifier.
 741? I'd went with an LM386 or equiv.  Single supply and the gain
controlled by a cap. between pins 1 and 8 iirc.  Don't know about
the ramsey's kit's, but wouldn't be suprised if it had one in there
already since dang near everything else seems to use them.
 -=> Yours sincerely, Paul Williams KB5IVG <=-
... "I'm in a good mood today!"--Tom
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