[AMPS] 12.5CM transmitter using microwave oven tube query

[Steve Thompson]

There was one in RF Design too, quite a few years ago.

Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Chadwick <Peter_Chadwick@mitel.com>
To: amps@contesting.com <amps@contesting.com>; 'wb4mnf@atl.org'
<wb4mnf@atl.org>
Date: 24 May 2000 01:34
Subject: RE: [AMPS] 12.5CM transmitter using microwave oven tube query


>
>Bob asked:
>
>
> >600W for $12 on 12.5CM???
> >Anyone messing with modulation/freq control schemes for microwave >oven
>tubes?
>
>Some years back, there was an article in Communications Quarterly, if my
memory
>serves, on making an ATV tx from an oven. As I remember it, it was FM, and
being
>wide band, stability didn't come into it.
>
>A wideband pulse mod or a CW tx seems pretty straightforward. Additionally,
for
>the 6's in LA County, it might prove the point to the county authorities
that
>sharing isn't a good idea...
>
>73
>
>Peter G3RZP
>
>
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