I did not use a crystal that was used in the original design and used my homebrew signal generator instead. I removed all components associated with the crystal circuit except for the capacitor across pins 6 and 7 of the SA612 mixer.
I ended up removing the 220uf capacitor on the output of the regulator as it was shorting to ground. Fortunately not enough smoke was let out of the regulator that it quit working. Got very very hot though. Another self inflected problem was during the initial power up and testing I used a signal generator to supply the signal source. What I didn't anticipate was that signal was strong enough that it ended up blowing the LM380 chip. I had another one on hand and lowering the source down to an appropriate level proved the circuit worked.
The receiver worked great and pulled in signals on the 40m band better than expected. Bench testing showed I could an injected signal down to the -120dBm area.
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