I found this interesting article:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2009/0709/fsl/fsl_diplodx.html
Looks like I should check with this Foreign Service officer/ham, who may have
some solutions, for bringing in ham gear.
Best Regards,
73, de Pat Barthelow AA6EG
> From: dale.long@prodigy.net
> To: km1h@jeremy.mv.com
> CC: apolloeme@live.com
> Subject: RE: [Amps] Uruguay Amp Project
> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 11:19:59 -0400
>
> There is a retired American Airlines pilot who travels regularly to
> Montevideo. I think it is CX1TT. Don't know if he would be willing to help,
> because he has his own amplifier and radio repair issues. It is exceeding
> hard to import things, and then to repair them. For example, both CX6VM and
> CX1TT had trouble with their K3. The guys at Elecraft, say "no problem,
> just UPS it back to us"...But they don't realize the monumental effort and
> cost that will entail, and have to go through customs again. It's not easy
> being a ham outside the USA.
>
> 73
>
> Dale N3BNA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Carl
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 7:24 AM
> To: Patrick Barthelow; amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Uruguay Amp Project
>
> It sounds like she needs to make friends with someone in the US or another
> embassy. That has been the import method of choice for many over the
> decades.
>
> Carl
> KM1H
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Barthelow" <apolloeme@live.com>
> To: <amps@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:51 PM
> Subject: [Amps] Uruguay Amp Project
> > Folks,
> >
> > In the course of helping a YL build an amp in Uruguay, I am making
> > progress, but am amazed at the challeges faced by hams there, and probably
>
> > other small countries, who want to buy or build ham gear, particularly
> > amps. I found an insider representative in the Uruguay broadcast
> > tramsmitter industry who is looking for spare broadcast transmitter parts,
>
> > suitable for Amateur amps, such as tubes, transformers, power supply
> > parts, etc for this ham.
> > He said, in the commercial TX world repairs or parts acquisition is
> > difficult and expensive, and a main vendor they rely on is Nebraska Radio
> > Sales. OUCH(!) NRS seems to have insanely high prices on QRO RF
> > components, at least to me they seem high. To add insult to injury this
> > insider says every purchase, say for a $1000 vacuum variable, or say a
> > transformer has a $1000 (equal amount) dollar duty tacked on before he can
>
> > bring it in. OUCH! Says there are a lot of solid state Broadcast TX
> > there, but also a lot of older tube transmitters, in the 1-10KW range as
> > spares, backups so I am hopeful to find the heavy parts for a power supply
>
> > there, to save money...In the olden days, here, the 4-400A was a common
> > find if you trolled radio station engineers for spares, probably not so
> > much any more.
> >
> > As to commercial ham gear I bet they also pay a super high tax on retail
> > gear brought in, so anyone in CX land on the air, has committed
> > considerable economic effort to do so.
> > I wonder if this lady could find usable components in a junked 1KW
> > microwave oven for a power supply, diodes, or caps, transformer, etc? The
>
> > last microwave oven that I took apart, had some hefty lookig HV diodes,
> > and what looked like a transistorized flyback style HV generator. I will
>
> > have to look through arciived threads on the reflector here....
> > Best Regards,
> > 73, de Pat Barthelow AA6EG
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