I was a 11 year old kid at the time they were in their hay-day and I made a few
bucks around town working on them and showing guys how to tune them. I remember
having a lot of Caps blowing up in the low stages because people thought they
if they drove them with 5 times the power they would get 5 times the output.
Easy money for me. $10 bucks was a fortune for me and a gonga deal for them. I
wish there had been hams around town at the time but all there were were cbers
and I loved radios. I would have been a ham 10 years earlier had I found an
elmer. They sure put out a lot of these things.
From: Patrick [mailto:tpblogeditor@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 4:37 PM
To: Sam Carpenter
Cc: Randall, Randy; amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] A few nice ones on E-Bay
Yes sir! You got the gold star.....and unless I was told the wrong info. those
things were built in California. Originally in Delaney's Garage. I know the guy
that bought out Delaney's Estate after he died of cancer. I forget the man's
business name now.
I will confess. I owned one of those boxes, at one time. The PDX-400. 10 tube
version. Had bad tubes in it, best I ever got was about, Oh, about 400 watts! I
got so screwed on that deal! Ticked me off..
Anyhow...
Memories... ;0)
-Chuck K8CPA
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Sam Carpenter <sam@owenscommunication.com>
wrote:
Delaney and Adams
From: Patrick [mailto:tpblogeditor@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 4:23 PM
To: Sam Carpenter
Cc: Randall, Randy; amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] A few nice ones on E-Bay
Hi Sam,
It depends on which one you got. Wawasee Electronics that built those things;
marketed different versions of that amp.
The JB2000 10-80 was actually a 10-80 meter amp. Now there was a version of
that amp, that was marketed towards the "Export CB" market. What they did was
this, instead of the bandswitch, they would toss in a coil that was wound for
CB, and add a "Modulator" circuit. Which was also sold as a stand alone, called
the JB-12. (There was also a JB-24, which was a 2 tube version, if my memory
serves me correctly...) That acted as the driver. Sometimes people would buy
the 80-10 amp and do the conversion themselves.
Anyhow, those beasts were splatter boxes, No filtering, sub-par quality on the
parts, and most of the time they were under powered. So, not something I'd run
on Ham Radio.
You might as well have been running a 12 tube D & A Phantom or a one of Abe
Brewers's Varmit Boxes.
Trivia Question, does anyone know what "D & A" stood for and where they were
REALLY built? I do. :)
Being in the "Business" of that stuff back years ago, helps. ;0)
73 de K8CPA
-Chuck
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Sam Carpenter <sam@owenscommunication.com>
wrote:
>
> It as a little different than that. They set it up to act like the Drake T4xb
> in AM. You could drive it with low power and it would have a resting carrier
> of low power (under 100 watts) but when modulated, it would give a peak on a
> normal what meter over 1000 watts. You could use it key down in the am mode
> w/0 upgraded transformer because it had not much more of a duty cycle than if
> in SSB. Sounded really loud on frequency and off.
>
> Sam , N9FUT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Patrick
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 4:00 PM
> To: Randall, Randy
> Cc: amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] A few nice ones on E-Bay
>
> HEH!
>
> Actually, all that really is, is a Copy of the HeathKit SB-220. and it would
> do about the same. It might have RF sensing relays in it. But other than
> that. it's about the same. I don't know if it has a "low drive" set up or
> not.
>
> 73 de K8CPA
>
> -Chuck
> http://www.politicalbyline.com
>
>
>
>
> 2010/4/9 Randall, Randy <Randy.Randall@healthall.com>
>
> > and of course, for the CB'er in all of us:
> >
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/BLACK-CAT-JB2000-HAM-AMPLIFIER-by-WAWASEE-Electronics_W0QQitemZ180491184519QQcategoryZ164974QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D20%26ps%3D63
> >
> > Randy
> >
> > "In theory, theory and practice are the same thing. In practice they're
> > not."
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
> > Behalf Of Patrick
> > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:36 PM
> > To: amps@contesting.com
> > Subject: [Amps] A few nice ones on E-Bay
> >
> >
> > and of course, for the CB'er in all of us:
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem
> > <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170470772368>
> > &item=170470772368
> >
> > uh, 10-4! ;0)
> >
> > VY 73!
> >
> > -Chuck K8CPA
> > http://www.politicalbyline.com
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