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.

"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
@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;

"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.

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
@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

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

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

Lynn W7LTQ

"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....

"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in news:doq2id$g23$1
@domitilla.aioe.org:

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....

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:12:56 GMT, Bruce in Alaska
wrote:

I will see that and raise you a Stephens SEA112 with coupler. With
the right incentives I might also throw in a Wood Freeman auto pilot
assembly (chain drive). It is a mechanical marvel and only weighs 50
pounds or so.


is the drivemotor 12Vdc or 32Vdc?

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12 volts

With
the right incentives I might also throw in a Wood Freeman auto pilot
assembly (chain drive). It is a mechanical marvel and only weighs 50
pounds or so.


is the drivemotor 12Vdc or 32Vdc?

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12 volts

Last year we put a Wood-Freeman mechanical, chain drive monster on a
commercial fishing vessel. Of course we used Comnav electronics and motor
driver. (new mercury contactors are rare and expensive!)

Lynn