- 141. Re: [Amps] exciter overshoot (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:48:07 +0200 (CEST)
- Exciter overshoot has been mentioned a lot here in the past. I seem to remember that full power spikes are not uncommon because of the use of ALC loops for power setting, and some rigs are worse than
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00237.html (7,155 bytes)
- 142. Re: [Amps] glass tape scotch 27 (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:37:17 +0200 (CEST)
- Will asked: If you're building a one off (as so many hams do), you probably don't worry too much about scraping around for a roll of tape if finding something cheaper will take too long and may not d
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00285.html (7,205 bytes)
- 143. Re: [Amps] glass tape scotch 27 (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:46:04 +0200 (CEST)
- Wouldn't surprise me. For every 1c that a government part increases in first cost, the end cost goes up by 3c. Much of which is down to the procurement policies. The US is probably the worst in this
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00287.html (6,933 bytes)
- 144. Re: [Amps] VHF UHF Amp Book (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:45:43 +0200 (CEST)
- If you collect old radio books (as I do), it's worth having. A lot depends on which edition, too, but as a source book for up to date projects, I wouldn't touch it. There are one or two useful things
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00323.html (6,869 bytes)
- 145. Re: [Amps] SELL: Ameritron AL1200 Contestor's Amplifier (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:19:56 +0200 (CEST)
- This all leads me to wonder if someone, somewhere, has got a simulation program into which you can feed the tube characteristics and get out the parameters such as intermod, input impedance, grid dis
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00361.html (8,849 bytes)
- 146. Re: [Amps] IM distortion and such (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:56:56 +0200 (CEST)
- design outside what is actually published on a spec sheet that only covers a limited number of situations under any condition, even if the component manufacturer, field history, or direct testing sho
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00420.html (7,899 bytes)
- 147. Re: [Amps] IM distortion and such (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:56:26 +0200 (CEST)
- You have a better opinion of component manufacturers than I have!!!! I think the problem here is this thread, like many on this reflector, has had a major performance change.< You are quite right, of
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00424.html (7,927 bytes)
- 148. Re: [Amps] Friedrichshaven - a new toy (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:56:04 +0200 (CEST)
- U.S. dollars would be $3012.33.< Is there customs duty, sales taxes, etc., to pay over and above that? One supposes that US Type Approval doesn't come cheap, but I don't understand why, with the FCC
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00435.html (7,833 bytes)
- 149. Re: [Amps] AL-80B questions (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:20:28 +0200 (CEST)
- of time will often cause an arcing tube, or a "big bang". < Tom, you've been told more than enough times that the bang is caused by VHF parasitics................!!!!!!!!!! :)- 73 Peter G3RZP _______
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00465.html (7,505 bytes)
- 150. Re: [Amps] AL-80B questions (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:45:08 +0200 (CEST)
- OK, probably a stupid question. Are we sure that the tuning point with minimum input capacitance is actually tuned to 50MHz, and not 100MHz, with the stage acting as a power doubler? 73 Peter G3RZP _
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00473.html (7,757 bytes)
- 151. Re: [Amps] IM distortion and such (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:14:28 +0200 (CEST)
- never quite being finished with their designs.< So how do you tell the difference between the mahemetician, the physicist, the accountant and the engineer? You ask 'What's 2 plus 2?' The mathematicia
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00508.html (8,768 bytes)
- 152. Re: [Amps] IM distortion and such (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:12:52 +0200 (CEST)
- IM3 or IM5. (harmful IM3 is 2 * F1 - F2, or 2*F2-F1, IM5 is 3*F1-2*F2, 3*F2-2*F1 and so on through all odd-order products).< If it's a square law curve, for example, there are NO third order products
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00542.html (9,138 bytes)
- 153. Re: [Amps] IM distortion and such (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:30:38 +0200 (CEST)
- expensive Eimac offerings and the 811A offered by everyone. Also, if I remember correctly, it was specifically created as an amateur service tube as was the 3-1000Z. Interestingly enough, the 572B is
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00548.html (11,058 bytes)
- 154. Re: [Amps] Parasitic Resistors (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:58:41 +0200 (CEST)
- Doug asked: The answer almost depends on what religion you are................ I like the big Carborundum types, if you can get them. Others like nichrome wire, or metal film or carbon film or.......
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00550.html (7,250 bytes)
- 155. [Amps] Really silly question (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:16:50 +0200 (CEST)
- So I've had this problem appear on the amplifier...... Bear in mind I've had chance to see it, but not chance to dig in to find out what's happening, and it's a fault that has appeared after some 19
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00553.html (8,568 bytes)
- 156. Re: [Amps] *** SPAM *** RE: Parasitic Resistors (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:19:32 +0200 (CEST)
- this application.< It depends. Parasitic suppression is very dependent on a number of things, especially layout and lead lengths and tubes and components... I like a process of empiric eclecticism.
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00554.html (7,227 bytes)
- 157. Re: [Amps] IM distortion and such (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:11:26 +0200 (CEST)
- had high level "sweet spots" where the positive slope of IMD level as a function of input power actually reversed and formed a local minimum at a fairly high input power level.< Yes, Mike, it's a wel
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00617.html (8,622 bytes)
- 158. [Amps] (no subject) (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:35:32 +0200 (CEST)
- That's very true. I was told that the earliest RAF WW2 airborne VHF transceivers used a Class C grid leak biased PA with modulation on the driver stage. The distortion was considered 'acceptable'. No
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00618.html (6,993 bytes)
- 159. Re: [Amps] Ideal bandswitch brand for 3 kW out am? (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:25:21 +0200 (CEST)
- Frank asked: The 1p 6 way switch from a WW2 tuning unit (TU5B, TU6, TU7 etc) for the BC191/375 transmitter. Last time I looked, $3 or so from Fair Radio Sales. 6 ways - 160, 80, 40, 30 and 20, 17 and
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00642.html (7,525 bytes)
- 160. Re: [Amps] Ideal bandswitch brand for 3 kW out am? (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:40:02 +0200 (CEST)
- 200 W.<< Limits are different elsewhere, so a full power amplifier is allowed. In any case, the original question came from Germany - if I remember correctly, they can have 700 watts or so.. 73 Pete
- /archives//html/Amps/2006-06/msg00653.html (7,694 bytes)
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