Re: [Amps] 3rd ed. Eimac's "Care and Feeding of Power Grid

["Roger (K8RI)" <k8ri@rogerhalstead.com>]

And I was buying new Eimac 8877s for $305.  Most amps that used them had 
no protective circuits, not even glitch resistors.  Just a fuse.
73, Roger (K8RI)

On 3/10/2017 5:24 PM, Carl wrote:
> Subject: [Amps] 3rd ed. Eimac's "Care and Feeding of Power Grid
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:06:50 -0800
> > From: Colin Lamb <k7fm@teleport.com>
> > To: amps@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [Amps] 3rd ed. Eimac's "Care and Feeding of Power Grid
> > Tubes"
> >
> > Just got my 1974 buyers guide off the shelf.  It has some transformers
> > numbers that I will probably save.  The 3-500Z tube sells brand new from
> > Eimac for $37.
> >
> >
> > Colin K7FM
> >
> > ###  LOL.  I was 18 yrs old back in 1974.  I would listen to these 
> > contester folks
> > on 75m at night, who were always buying  replacement  SB-220 plate 
> > xfmrs....
> > which back in 1974, were $35.00   each.   I forget what a new Eimac  
> > 8877 was,
> > but it was semi affordable.  I bought brand spanky new Eimac 4-1000s  
> > for
> > $40.00  each, back in 1976.   Back then, they were  everywhere, and 
> > readily
> > available.   A Ham-2  rotor, new was $199.00    A used  Hygain 204BA
> > was aprx  $150.00
> >
> > ##  A new pair of 572B tubes for a SB-200  was aprx  $60.00
> > My brand new 48 ft self support tower was $225.00  back in
> > 1976.  4x4x4  concrete block was another $115.00
> > Aluminum 3 inch OD irrigation pipe was  74 cents a foot. It came
> > in  20-30-40 ft lengths.  I bought 36 ft of it..and they delivered it 
> > for free.
> > They took a 40 ft length, lopped 4 ft off one end, and  only charged  me
> > for 36 ft.  Instant  36 ft boom, no splices.  Al tubing for eles was 
> > dirt cheap,
> > like the 6061-T6 variety.
> >
> > ##  Bought small prop pitchs  for $75.00  each.   A 10 kva hypersil
> > pole pig was  $75.00  .   The big ticket items
> > were my new drake C line + mating L4B amp..back in 1977. $3400.00
> > for the drake gear.  My new 1977 Honda civic  was $3750.00
> > Bought my first home for $40 K , back in 1979.
> >
> > Those were good times.
> >
> > Jim  VE7RF
> I used two 20' lengths of 3" for my 4 el 20M yagi around 1984. Used 
> about 18" of Schedule 40 AL pipe as a strong splice and for the boom 
> to mast plate. Took it down in 89 and put back up here in 91 where it 
> remained as part of the 4/4/4/4 on 20M on a rotating side arm.
> That boom and elements survived everything this hilltop could throw at 
> it when I dismantled the contest aluminum farm of up to 19 HF yagis on 
> 4 towers about 10 years ago.  It is all resting on several sawhorses 
> out in the back woods.
> Carl
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