[Amps] Hmmmm...Legal limit boiled the oil in the cantena

[Hardy Landskov]

Wow. I would be afraid the fire that one up. It looks like the plate vac 
variable and coil are at plate DC + and the blocking cap is after the coil. 
That means the vac variable has to withstand the initial DC plus whatever 
the plate is swinging. Now the RF Choke is so big that it has to be 
capacitive in value which is not good in my opinion.
The rest of the amp looks like it was manufactured by a professional company 
and someone got in there with a pair of wire cutters, hack saw, and other 
tools
and wanted to score big on CB.
My 2 cents...
73 N7RT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger" <sub1 at rogerhalstead.com>
To: <amps at hidden-valley.com>
Cc: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Hmmmm...Legal limit boiled the oil in the cantena


>
>
> Jeff Carter wrote:
>> My favorite part was the following line:
>>
>> "I hold a general class ticket so please buy with confidence."
>>
> I had one of those wayyyy back in 61, of course back then you had the
> choice of Novice or General. Anything else mean you'd been around a
> longggg time.
>> I never held a General ticket (went straight to Extra),
> Just listen to the magic from them on 3.895 <:-))
>>  so maybe
>> there's some magic in the General Class ticket that makes one
>> instantly trustworthy and I just missed out on it.
>>
>>
> To me they were all magic although I have to admit I was probably the
> most active as a Novice and as Advanced. I had a long stretch starting
> around 1980 where I was seldom on the air.
> OTOH I've been on the air more in the last week since the new amp
> arrived using nothing but center fed sloping half wave dipoles on 75 and
> 40.  None of the big antennas are hooked up. AND to top it off, today I
> discovered a really strong, broad signal moving around roughly between
> 7.145 and 7.158. It's running 20 to 30 over 9 and about 15 KHz wide at
> the 3db points.
>
> "I think" it's one of those "plug your phone into your computer" setups
> which are gaining a reputation for terrible RFI, but I'm going to have
> to get the local RFI group to help hunt it down. One of those things can
> be 20 over 9 from a block away. I know it's louder on the sloper than on
> the vertical.
>
> At any rate, with the warm weather I tried my first climb and made it to
> 70 feet (with full body harness and fall arrest gear) before deciding to
> call it a day. I didn't have my work boots (with steel shanks)  on and
> these shoes have very deep groves in the soles which makes it more work
> to climb, but if I can give it a try about 3 times a week I should make
> it to the top and be able to stay long enough to get something useful 
> done.
>
> Well, time to get on the phone and start hunting.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>> Jeff/KD4RBG
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Roger <sub1 at rogerhalstead.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140396998669&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123
>>>
>>> Hmmm
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Roger (K8RI)
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