[Amps] which one?

[Ken Beals]

Couldn't resist commenting on this:  I am in the middle of rebuilding a 
2KD-5 to modernize it:  QSK vacuum relay, electronic bias, glitch 
protection, etc.  I just recently finished doing the same thing to a 
Kenwood TL-922.  I am really struck by the difference in design and 
quality of construction.  The Kenwood is very "finished" looking 
inside:  it looks like it was well thought out and carefully designed.  
The Henry almost looks like a homebuilt inside. Even the Rube Goldberg 
arrangement on the front panel for the concentric knobs has a homebuilt, 
although complex, look to it.  I hope it will last another few years, 
but plastic gear trains have a finite life.  There are a number of 
plastic gears in front to drive everything, and a chain arrangement to 
drive the bandswitch/input bandswitch.  This was the first amp I bought 
when I got active again, and I really did not do much research.  For 
about the same price, I sure like the Kenwood, even in an unmodified 
state. 

Whichever one you get, spend some time at Rich Measure's amp site.  
There is lots of good info about keeping any of the 3-500 amps working 
reliably.

Ken  K6MR

Gary Smith wrote:

>My .02: probably the Henry.  It will do "legal" +,  will more than likely  do 12 meters with little or no modification. Please be aware  the jugs in the SB-220 (if they are original) are very old. And as a footnote right here, Eimac has not made a glass envelope tube since y2k.
>Ask other's and they will tell you that a Henry amp is kind of like the old saying about IBM stock:  "no one ever went broke from owning it."
>73,
>Gary, wa6fgi
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>  If you had a choice of a Henry 2KD-5 with fairly new tubes, or a SB220 with the originals but still full output, both exact same (fair) price, which would be the better of the 2
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>  Bill W4VD
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