In relation to Tom's recollection of that 4-1000 amp, I remember the
first time I saw someone using a tube with more than the spec sheet
values on the tubes. In this case it was a friend who had a homebrew
amp with two 3-500Z and a really large pole pig transformer. He also
varied one leg of it with a space station sized variac. He kept
pushing the voltage higher till it was over the 6KV, I don't recall
the final KV, I was looking at the tubes & Bird. The tubes were white
hot and the bird was at 3KW when the output dropped like a stone.
Turned out the solder had melted from the pins on one of the 3-500Zs.
Nothing like the output from the large amps but I was amazed the
anodes didn't melt they were so white hot.
Gary
KA1J
> I was doing a Multi with a station who had a 4-1000 amp.
>
> There was a station on 40 that we were trying to get and he kept
> turning the steering wheel on the power supply up and calling him. We
> finally worked the station when the watt meter was bouncing on 3000
> watts :-) That was about the best I've seen. 73 Tom W7WHY
>
> WJ2W wrote:
>
> >
> >Does anyone know what the record is for the most watts ever run on
> >amateur radio? Transmitted watts, not ERP. Just curious about the
> >number. No callsigns needed. Thanks. ~Jordan WJ2W
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