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Re: [Amps] ARRL Amplifier book

To: Phil Clements <philk5pc@tyler.net>,"Vic Rosenthal" <vic@rakefet.com>, "RICHARD GEORGE" <k6kwq@msn.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] ARRL Amplifier book
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 17:14:58 -0400
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At 04:02 PM 9/5/2004, Phil Clements wrote:
The new "toys" of the 21st century are the big amps from Collins that
are coming out of the old Nike missile silos, Big Henry amps that
came out of U.S. embassies from all over the world, Harris amps that
came out of the bowels of ships by the hundreds, broadcast and
medical "pull" tubes, MRI machines, and so on. There is no market for
authors to publish their conversion projects on all this wonderful
stuff, because of the capabilities of the gear....


Which raises an interesting question... If you were shopping the current surplus market for an amplifier that could be readily modified to cover the amateur bands 1.9-30 MHz, with <100 watts drive and cool 1.5 KW output, what would it be? I'm presuming that desiderata would be as-built input and tank circuits good down to at least 2 MHz and an AC power supply. What would you start with and what would you expect to pay for a clean unit?


73, Pete N4ZR
The World HF Contest Station Database
was updated on August 2, 2004
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