The ones I often pick up for chump change is the real ham amps that have
been turned into CB monobanders. As long as the basics are there and not
butchered, its a simple conversion to 6M which is where I make my money.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "EP Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
To: "RAY FRIESS" <rayfrijr@msn.com>; <amps@contesting.com>;
<af2c@njdxa.org>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] illegal amps?
> Hi Ray,
>
> A good point, well made...
>
> Another thing I discovered --- after I first fired-up the Palomar on
> 10-meters & called CQ --- was that the doggone thing sounded just
> AWFUL at the other end. All I did initially was re-peak / tweak
> everything to play up above 28-MHz, but the distortion was terrible.
>
> I ended-up biasing the control grids of the two 6LQ6 sweep tubes by
> way of a 9-volt battery, and the improvement in signal quality was
> remarkable. The only caveat (beyond that, of course) is that these old
> mobile tube-type amplifiers used (then) state-of-the-art germanium
> power transistors in the multi-vibrator circuits of their power
> supplies, which can cost an arm & a leg in to-day's NOS replacement
> market. An ample junque box is gold in this way...
>
> ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>
>
> ******************************************************************************
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: RAY FRIESS
> To: EP Swynar ; amps@contesting.com ; af2c@njdxa.org
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 1:13 PM
> Subject: RE: [Amps] illegal amps?
>
>
>
> Did the same thing here. Picked up a Palomar 300 (one with the
> external transformer) for 20 bucks from a CBer who was
> moving and didnt want to take it with him. Did a little changing to
> eliminate any harmonics and it is usable on 40 through 10.
> 10 to 20 watts in gets up to 500 out. Will be great when 10 meter
> AM comes back in.
>
> One word of caution. When using an HTX 10 especially, turn down the
> audio gain to cut down the power output on SSB.
> Otherwise you have WAY too much output for driving these amps.
>
>
>
>
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