Will and Bill,
I just went to the ebay site and looked that item over.
As a 13MHZ plasma generator it is probably worth the price and then some if
you have a shop that needs one and the 3 phase power to run it; and you can
get some type of a guarantee of proper operation from the seller.
As far as a CB operator purchasing it goes: (My opinion only and I'll
probably take a lot of criticism for stating it.)......
If the CB operator was capable of making the changes required to put it
on 27MHZ with the antenna changeover relay, etc...., he probably already knows
more than half of the licensed operators on this reflector!
There are a LOT of low pass filters that would have been required to get
FCC approval that would have to be eliminated or retuned, and also some
serious
modifications to each stage and their control circuitry that would require
some engineering background and/or significant prior experience.
I did one JRC amp about 5 years ago that had been a spare for an MRI
machine, and it even required reprogramming of it's digital controls to make
that
happen, I more or less did it to win a bet after spouting off to someone that
no amplifier was 'mod' proof! I had to 'weld' taps to coils that ran much too
hot because of inadequate space in the cabinet and much too high of a 'Q' in
order to keep the coils small in size, and I never intend to do another one
again because it's much, much, easier just to build one from scratch. I won
the bet by getting full power out on all bands to get my parts money back, but
provided absolutely no guarantees and wasted entirely too much time
reworking an amplifier that I never thought would have lasted a week much less
hold
up for these last 5 years!
Now if you would have said some licensed HAM operator or experienced
technician was considering purchasing that ebay plasma generator for
modification
and resale, I would be more likely to believe you.
When I look at an article like that, I look at it for it's parts value,
because in most cases there is not enough room in the original chassis to add
the bandswitching components necessary to multiband it; and if the tubes are
no
good, and there were no guarantees that they were; I wouldn't pay even that
much for it!
In a message dated 10/11/04 10:11:17 AM Central Daylight Time,
craxd1@ezwv.com writes:
The ebay Item number: 5724275642
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48700&item=5724275642&r
d=1&ssPageName=WDVW
Will Matney
Bill Fuqua wrote:
> It is done so that those buying such things as Adult only materials
> and possibly illegal purchases IDs will be kept private. Keeping it
> hidden makes it easier for a "CBer" to buy the item with out worrying
> about his ID being known with out a court order. And that is probably
> why there are so many bids. The CBers are fighting over it. On the
> other hand it could be bait set out by the FCC to catch some illegal
> operators.
> I really think that sales like this should be public and it be
> known that the seller will only sell to a person that can show he has
> the legal right to purchase such an item.
> What is the item number?
>
> 73
> Bill wa4lav
>
>
> At 10:07 AM 10/11/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> Ok, what I'm writing here, don't take offense to if your the
>> auctioner. On ebay, I noticed a large RF generator that had a
>> 3CX10,000 in it. The bids had gotten up to about $2500. Here's the
>> problems, 1st, there was about 38 bids on this. I've never seen that
>> many bids for one, especially at this price. 2nd., the bidders names
>> were being kept private. Now, doing this, all it would take is have a
>> buddy to bid (shill) driving the price on up higher and higher. Why
>> on earth would they want to hide the bidders names? I'm just letting
>> this out as a warning about some ebay items. When something like this
>> shows up, you need to make extra sure what's going on. I'd hate to
>> see any on here being taken for a ride as $2,500 is a lot of money
>> and 38 bids seems an awful lot.
>>
>> Will Matney
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