"Larry" wrote in message
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Bruce in Alaska wrote in news:bruceg-
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well, if your rich and famous.....



I am rich and famous. I use Yaesu ham radios...(c;

They come with LSB and 10 Hz steps, not 100 or 1Khz.

Heck, that ain't nothing! My RME4350 goes 20 times further than
that....... just during warm up.
Lynn W7LTQ

"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in news:donr4h$1u6$1
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just during warm up.


Warmup? 4-1000's don't warmup...(c;

Oh, you mean until the graphite plates are cherry red on the pair of
them...(c;

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in news:donr4h$1u6$1
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just during warm up.


Warmup? 4-1000's don't warmup...(c;

Oh, you mean until the graphite plates are cherry red on the pair of
them...(c;

Well, not exactly, but we did run cherry red graphites for a time on the
homebrew push-pull 211's (aka VT-127?). Shame the plate xformer smoked
during ARRL RCC certificate attempts.

Lynn W7LTQ

"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in message
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"Larry" wrote in message
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"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in news:donr4h$1u6$1
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just during warm up.


Warmup? 4-1000's don't warmup...(c;

Oh, you mean until the graphite plates are cherry red on the pair of
them...(c;

Well, not exactly, but we did run cherry red graphites for a time on the
homebrew push-pull 211's (aka VT-127?). Shame the plate xformer smoked
during ARRL RCC certificate attempts.

Nothing like the warm glow of a pair of 3-500's key down on rtty, on a cold
winter's night. Almost as warming as a fireplace.

Leanne
W1WXS

"Leanne" wrote in :

Nothing like the warm glow of a pair of 3-500's key down on rtty, on a
cold winter's night. Almost as warming as a fireplace.

Leanne
W1WXS




You never saw the big 4-1000A amp I got from JD Black, WA4DVK in
Orangeburg, did you? It was in a WW2 Navy transmitter cabinet 24" wide
and 7' high. Pole pig hooked up backwards for 7200VDC, cut back to 6KV
with a 230VAC 30A variac beast on the primary, home brew filament
transformer, regulated screen power supply for stability, running COMMON
CATHODE! Input was a 50 ohm, 100W dummy load into a drive potentiometer
so you could turn the drive back to where the tubes were designed to
operate. No tuned input necessary, it was a dummy load for the rig.
Output was a shunt-fed Pi network with huge rotary inductor with nice
turns counter, 500pF, 30KV vacuum variable input and broadcast air
variable dual ganged output cap both with nice vernier, calibrated dials
for fast band changing. Huge broadcast transmitter meters across the
top, screen-shielded window to impress the shack guests looking in over
the pair of 4-1000A graphite Amperex finals.

I brought a piece of melted RG-8 to a club meeting one night.
"Somethin' ain't right!", I told 'em...(c; Great fun on 75M on a cold
winter night. The little Heath HW-100 transceiver and a coaxial antenna
changeover relay and we're in business...(c; Run about 20W into it and
you'd see 6KV on one meter and nearly 1A on the plate meter. That's
about a kilowatt, right?....Right!

In Sumter, my neighbor's hall light was resonant around 3900 Khz. It
followed the SSB modulation, lighting up quite brightly...(c;

POWER is our FRIEND....

"Leanne" wrote in message
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"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in message
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"Larry" wrote in message
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"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in news:donr4h$1u6$1
@domitilla.aioe.org:

just during warm up.


Warmup? 4-1000's don't warmup...(c;

Oh, you mean until the graphite plates are cherry red on the pair of
them...(c;

Well, not exactly, but we did run cherry red graphites for a time on the
homebrew push-pull 211's (aka VT-127?). Shame the plate xformer smoked
during ARRL RCC certificate attempts.

Nothing like the warm glow of a pair of 3-500's key down on rtty, on a
cold
winter's night. Almost as warming as a fireplace.

Leanne
W1WXS


And the solder running out of the 3-500 tube pins. I restored a large box of
pulled 3-500Z's back in 1970 when I arrived on Adak Island. Some of the MARS
ops at KL7AIZ were not real good about tuning the Henry 2K3 with Johnson
Viking matchbox into the 80 meter rhombic. The tubes got so hot the solder
ran out of the pins. Once I discovered the fix, there was talk of awarding
me some kind of medal!
73
Doug K7ABX

"Doug" wrote in news:j6Ysf.3776$nu6.2234
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The tubes got so hot the solder
ran out of the pins.

PRECISELY why I confiscated all the keys to Radio 2, USS Everglades (AD-
24), where the TBK/TBL Museum was located. USN Radiomen weren't trained in
1960s how to tune up a real transmitter. I got tired of being dragged out
of bed at 2AM just for information. Give me the freq list for tonight and
I'll have 'em ready, on time, without having to fix them every time a
Radioman got within 5' of them....(sigh).

Note to the Deck Force....Don't take the ground wire off the turnbuckles on
rigging going aloft unless you ask me nicely to secure the TBKs first to
save those burned fingers...(c;

homebrew push-pull 211's (aka VT-127?)

OK, my bad. should read "(aka VT-4C)" it was almost 60 years ago.

Lynn W7LTQ

"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in news:doq2id$g23$1
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OK, my bad. should read "(aka VT-4C)" it was almost 60 years ago.



You're telling me. My father just moved into a nursing home at 83 and I've
been going through the junk. Found a picture of me in my sailor suit when
I was an ET3 back in '65. Nice lookin' kid, but that was FORTY YEARS AGO!

How awful....

"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in message
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"Larry" wrote in message
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Bruce in Alaska wrote in news:bruceg-
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well, if your rich and famous.....



I am rich and famous. I use Yaesu ham radios...(c;

They come with LSB and 10 Hz steps, not 100 or 1Khz.

Heck, that ain't nothing! My RME4350 goes 20 times further than
that....... just during warm up.
Lynn W7LTQ


Ever thought of trying some zener diodes or solid state regulators in it to
see if stabalizes? Do is have VR type gaseous regulator tubes? It been a few
years since I peeked inside an RME.
Doug K7ABX