- 1. Re: [Amps] Re Henry 2KD2 Amplifier (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:22:38 -0500
- Yes. Last night I came on a new one for me on 160 CW & there was one person calling & the DX didn't hear him. After waiting maybe 10 tries for this 1x2 to make contact I gave my call & some fatuous n
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-01/msg00052.html (9,944 bytes)
- 2. [Amps] External QSK (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:03:53 -0500
- Hi, I'd like to add QSK to my AL-1500. My rig is a K3. The Ameritron QSK-5 uses PIN diodes which would be perfectly silent but I don't use a tuner anymore as my antennae are cut close enough that the
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-01/msg00270.html (7,436 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Amps] Good amp to buy (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:39:22 -0500
- I haven't seen a lot of the commercial QRO amps but my Ameritron AL- 1500 tapped for 4KV on the tube gives me 1500 key down for between 35- 40W on all bands. Gary KA1J _______________________________
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-01/msg00380.html (8,137 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Amps] Good amp to buy (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:35:05 -0500
- Came that way when I got it a year ago; caps are not warm after hours of operation. Doesn't arc or hiccup in any way. I like the low drive requirement. Gary KA1J ____________________________________
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-01/msg00383.html (8,799 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Amps] I dont accept answers to why did Heath die? (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:07:49 -0500
- Because it is offered as a kit, is the reason I bought and put together my K3 which has every bell & whistle except the inboard 2 meter board. Gary KA1J BTW, Not thinking I "need" a 3KW ATU but if I
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-02/msg00032.html (10,052 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Amps] HB amps - what you can build with no tools (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:15:17 -0500
- I was visiting a friend in MA who was doing some repair work to his house which was built by shakers over 200 years ago. There was a part of the inner wall removed showing the infrastructure. He poin
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-02/msg00064.html (11,572 bytes)
- 7. Re: [Amps] HB amps - what you can build with no tools (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:04:41 -0500
- Jeff, Oh, I'm all for covering up the burn mark on the floor with a rug. I just remembered being amazed at the extremes the Shakers went to, to be "perfect'. The concept of going overboard when makin
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-02/msg00067.html (14,103 bytes)
- 8. Re: [Amps] Water cooled 160 meter amplifier.. (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:02:46 -0500
- On the water cooled computer I used for recording in my home studio, I did something different after watercooling for the last 8-10 years. Instead of having a radiator from a car heater with fans qui
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-02/msg00260.html (9,101 bytes)
- 9. [Amps] OT - source of flooded coax? (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:19:26 -0500
- I need approximately 700 feet of flooded coax for a beverage. I don't really want to throw my money away on stuff that is useless. I looked around today for local stuff and the best price on coax I c
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-02/msg00270.html (7,157 bytes)
- 10. [Amps] Resting plate watts with An 8877 (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:34:06 -0500
- Between the indirect heating for the 8877 and the resting plate current, what is the usual baseline watts burned if key down but there's no transmission. Say the KV is 4K resting on the plate. Yeah,
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-02/msg00677.html (6,619 bytes)
- 11. [Amps] AL-1500 and bias control with an external QSK (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:02:08 -0500
- Hi, Has anyone with the AL-1500/AL1200 used an external QSK with it and knows which line to work with to turn on/off biasing with the QSK unit? http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/qsk_faq.htm#top
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-02/msg00757.html (7,519 bytes)
- 12. Re: [Amps] Thermistor's. (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:54:01 -0500
- LOL, I remember making a full wave bridge to handle the lights in my dorm room back in the 70's... Each light got a full wave bridge so was running on DC, Idea that was to prolong tungsten filament l
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-03/msg00088.html (8,024 bytes)
- 13. Re: [Amps] WD-40 Is Not.... (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:33:36 -0500
- It's the Oily snake that gets the Vermin. Apologies... Gary KA1J _______________________________________________ Amps mailing list Amps@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amp
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-03/msg00119.html (9,362 bytes)
- 14. Re: [Amps] WD-40, snaked, vermin and puddytats (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:11:19 -0500
- Mom, now 100 used to be an ornithologist. She loved trapping hawks, banding them & letting them go. The bait used was mice. She had some of the most amazing Rube Goldberg contraptions to catch the l
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-03/msg00120.html (10,634 bytes)
- 15. Re: [Amps] B&W PT-2500A HF Amplifier (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:56:23 -0400
- Tony, I gave my Dad what I believe was the original version of that Amp, the Viewstar PT-2500A made in Scarsborough, Ontario. He uses it daily. I've been so wrong before but I think B&W bought the am
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-03/msg00509.html (7,936 bytes)
- 16. Re: [Amps] Good engineering (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:53:50 -0400
- Second hand experience here but my best friend/Best Man at my wedding decided he needed a sit down job subsequent to construction injuries and went to college in St. Louis to study Engineering. He i
- /archives//html/Amps/2010-03/msg00559.html (8,638 bytes)
- 17. [Amps] Sucking air (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:34:43 -0500
- I noticed the AL-1500 was getting pretty hot during the contest last weekend & wonder if putting a large muffin fan on the outlet & sucking the exhaust would perhaps assist in increasing air flow. I
- /archives//html/Amps/2011-11/msg00160.html (6,937 bytes)
- 18. [Amps] preserving tubes (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:20:45 -0400
- Is there any benefit to taking a ceramic tube on the shelf and running it every so often and then returning it to the shelf to archive it for a backup when needed? Or os it just as well to let it sit
- /archives//html/Amps/2012-10/msg00009.html (6,959 bytes)
- 19. [Amps] preserving tubes (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:20:57 -0400
- Is there any benefit to taking a ceramic tube on the shelf and running it every so often and then returning it to the shelf to archive it for a backup when needed? Or os it just as well to let it sit
- /archives//html/Amps/2012-10/msg00010.html (6,761 bytes)
- 20. Re: [Amps] preserving tubes (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:30:10 -0400
- I'm interested in knowing the general answer for any of the tubes. In specific I have a pair of 3PCX800A7 I bought when I had my Ten-Tec Titan and they were full output tubes. With the thought I may
- /archives//html/Amps/2012-10/msg00022.html (9,961 bytes)
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