[Amps] Gonset Amplifier

Pete Smith n4zr@contesting.com
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:35:36 -0400


At 02:27 PM 9/18/02 -0700, COLIN LAMB wrote:
>The Gonset 500-W was made in 1954 and covered 10 - 80 meters with provision
>for 160.  SSB output is 250 watts PEP.  Am output is 90 Watts.  CW output
>is 220 watts.  Uses 4 x 807 tubes in parallel with 4 866 Jr. in a bridge
>circuit.  New cost $339.50.


Which again demonstrates that we have made SOME progress, anyhow.  In 2002 
dollars, the Gonset would cost about as much as an AL-1500 today.

73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower