[Amps] ARRL Amplifier book

[Pete Smith]

At 04:02 PM 9/5/2004, Phil Clements wrote:
>The new "toys" of the 21st century are the big amps from Collins that
>are coming out of the old Nike missile silos, Big Henry amps that
>came out of U.S. embassies from all over the world, Harris amps that
>came out of the bowels of ships by the hundreds, broadcast and
>medical "pull" tubes, MRI machines, and so on. There is no market for
>authors to publish their conversion projects on all this wonderful
>stuff, because of the capabilities of the gear....


Which raises an interesting question... If you were shopping the current 
surplus market for an amplifier that could be readily modified to cover the 
amateur bands 1.9-30 MHz, with <100 watts drive and cool 1.5 KW output, 
what would it be?  I'm presuming that desiderata would be as-built input 
and tank circuits good down to at least 2 MHz and an AC power supply. What 
would you start with and what would you expect to pay for a clean unit?


73, Pete N4ZR
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