Interesting ... I always wondered that. I used to pay the bills in the early
70s by fixing CBs by the side of the highway. Amazing what a guy will do
when he is broke. I converted a number of D&A Phantom 500 amps to real ham
amps for customers for free as a reward for them passing their ham tests. It
was easy ... I just ripped out the driver tubes and put a decent final tank
circuit in with band switching for 80 through 20 meters. Put out a usefull
800 plus watts PEP with the six sweep tubes. Took about 30 minutes and it
was never used on 11 meters again!
Theo K4MO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Matney" <craxd1@ezwv.com>
To: "ampscontestingcom" <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] CB Amps...Trash or Treasure?
> Ed Delaney made the D&A line and was a friend of mine. Matter of fact, he
> got me interested in going into business when I was about 17-18 years old
> (1982-1983). He died just shortly thereafter. I contemplated buying out
> D&A but his widow wanted too much at the time for a young buck like I was.
> It ended up being bought out by two different surplus electronics houses.
> Eds picture used to be in some ads for home learning electronics courses
> back in the 60's and 70's if I remember right. I think the school was out
> of Nebraska where he was at. Yes, they would work on the ham bands but
> were really aimed at the CB market. Some of the stuff that had to be
> designed to get around the law was making them CW transmitters with a plug
> in crystal, LOL :) The small ones like the Bandit was made only as an
> amplifier. That's my little piece to the history contribution.
>
> Best,
>
> Will
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:42:24 -0500, Larry Keith <kq4by@rocketmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Greetings..
> >
> >
> > I just came by what I think are two CB amps..
> >
> > 1 -- Bandit II, by D&A Manufacturing. Has a bandswitch marked 40, 20,
> > 15,
> > 10. I found a schematic on this one. It has four 6JF6's and it runs
> > from
> > 12 V. So, I guess the question is: Is it a ham item or a CB item or
> > both?
> >
> >
> > 2 -- The Shoe Box, by the Electronics Center of Greenwood, IN. I can't
> > find
> > any data on this one and I haven't opened it up, yet.. But, I can see
> > the
> > tubes inside.
> >
> >
> > Do these evoke any old memories? 8-)
> >
> >
> > 73,
> >
> >
> > Larry
> > KQ4BY
> >
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