Yes....Your eyes are failing.
There is another coil under the 10/15 meter coil. There is also an 5
position bandswitch on the front panel.
My guess is that the meter indication that you are seeing is the plate
voltage. When 3-500 tubes short, there is NEGITIVE grid current.
73
Jim W7RY
P.S. Is this site designed to pass along your political statements ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Bryant" <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>
To: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
Cc: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [AMPS] A Clone of an SB-220 by SBE
>
> Pete Smith wrote:
>
> > At 08:53 AM 10/24/01 -0700, Jim wrote:
> >
> >>Wow....That's really interesting! That really is a clone. As
someone
> >>pointed out, the cooling system is not the same. Doesn't draw cooling
air
> >>
> >>from around the transformer.
> >
> >>My guess that it was not built by the Side Band Engineers that we are
all
> >>familiar. Their logo was always block letters and was blue. Although the
> >>logo in the photographs is difficult to make out.
> >>
> >>My guess is that this was catered toward the "CB" market.
> >>
> >
> > Interesting, all right -- unless my eyes are failing me there is no
plate
> > bandswitch, and only the 10/11m coil is in place. Also the cooling does
> > not not appear to extend below the chassis, so this amp could be very
hard
> > on filament pins.
> >
> > 73, Pete N4ZR
>
>
> Yeah, and look very carefully at the Grid meter... If I'm not mistaken,
the needle looks like it's stuck all the way to the right!
>
>
> jim
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