[Amps] A few nice ones on E-Bay

[Patrick]

HEH! God! now you're really making me think about the old days...

Anyhow, there is a picture of those guys in a van that had the name of the
side of it. Have you see it?

I've only heard about it.

-Chuck K8CPA




On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Sam Carpenter <sam at owenscommunication.com>wrote:

>  I was a 11 year old kid at the time they were in their hay-day and I made
> a few bucks around town working on them and showing guys how to tune them. I
> remember having a lot of Caps blowing up in the low stages because people
> thought they if they drove them with 5 times the power they would get 5
> times the output. Easy money for me. $10 bucks was a fortune for me and a
> gonga deal for them. I wish there had been hams around town at the time but
> all there were were cbers and I loved radios. I would have been a ham 10
> years earlier had I found an elmer. They sure put out a lot of these things.
>
>
>
> *From:* Patrick [mailto:tpblogeditor at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, April 09, 2010 4:37 PM
>
> *To:* Sam Carpenter
> *Cc:* Randall, Randy; amps at contesting.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Amps] A few nice ones on E-Bay
>
>
>
> Yes sir! You got the gold star.....and unless I was told the wrong info.
> those things were built in California. Originally in Delaney's Garage. I
> know the guy that bought out Delaney's Estate after he died of cancer. I
> forget the man's business name now.
>
> I will confess. I owned one of those boxes, at one time. The PDX-400. 10
> tube version. Had bad tubes in it, best I ever got was about, Oh, about 400
> watts! I got so screwed on that deal! Ticked me off..
>
> Anyhow...
>
> Memories... ;0)
>
> -Chuck K8CPA
>
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Sam Carpenter <sam at owenscommunication.com>
> wrote:
>
> Delaney and Adams
>
>
>
> *From:* Patrick [mailto:tpblogeditor at gmail.com]
>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 09, 2010 4:23 PM
> *To:* Sam Carpenter
>
> *Cc:* Randall, Randy; amps at contesting.com
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Amps] A few nice ones on E-Bay
>
>
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> It depends on which one you got. Wawasee Electronics that built those
> things; marketed different versions of that amp.
>
> The JB2000 10-80 was actually a 10-80 meter amp. Now there was a version of
> that amp, that was marketed towards the "Export CB" market. What they did
> was this, instead of the bandswitch, they would toss in a coil that was
> wound for CB, and add a "Modulator" circuit. Which was also sold as a stand
> alone, called the JB-12. (There was also a JB-24, which was a 2 tube
> version, if my memory serves me correctly...) That acted as the driver.
> Sometimes people would buy the 80-10 amp and do the conversion themselves.
>
> Anyhow, those beasts were splatter boxes, No filtering, sub-par quality on
> the parts, and most of the time they were under powered. So, not something
> I'd run on Ham Radio.
>
> You might as well have been running a 12 tube D & A Phantom or a one of Abe
> Brewers's Varmit Boxes.
>
> Trivia Question, does anyone know what "D & A" stood for and where they
> were REALLY built? I do. :)
>
> Being in the "Business" of that stuff back years ago, helps. ;0)
>
> 73 de K8CPA
>
> -Chuck
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Sam Carpenter <sam at owenscommunication.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > It as a little different than that. They set it up to act like the Drake
> T4xb in AM. You could drive it with low power and it would have a resting
> carrier of low power (under 100 watts) but when modulated, it would give a
> peak on a normal what meter over 1000 watts. You could use it key down in
> the am mode w/0 upgraded transformer because it had not much more of a duty
> cycle than if in SSB. Sounded really loud on frequency and off.
> >
> > Sam , N9FUT
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Patrick
> > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 4:00 PM
> > To: Randall, Randy
> > Cc: amps at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [Amps] A few nice ones on E-Bay
> >
> > HEH!
> >
> > Actually, all that really is, is a Copy of the HeathKit SB-220. and it
> would
> > do about the same. It might have RF sensing relays in it. But other than
> > that. it's about the same. I don't know if it has a "low drive" set up or
> > not.
> >
> > 73 de K8CPA
> >
> > -Chuck
> > http://www.politicalbyline.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 2010/4/9 Randall, Randy <Randy.Randall at healthall.com>
> >
> > > and of course, for the CB'er in all of us:‎
> > >
> > >
> > >
> http://cgi.ebay.com/BLACK-CAT-JB2000-HAM-AMPLIFIER-by-WAWASEE-Electronics_W0QQitemZ180491184519QQcategoryZ164974QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D20%26ps%3D63
> > >
> > > Randy
> > >
> > > "In theory, theory and practice are the same thing.  In practice
> they're
> > > not."
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com]
> On
> > > Behalf Of Patrick
> > > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:36 PM
> > > To: amps at contesting.com
> > > Subject: [Amps] A few nice ones on E-Bay
> > >
> > >
> > > and of course, for the CB'er in all of us:
> > >
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170470772368
> > >
> > > uh, 10-4! ;0)
> > >
> > > VY 73!
> > >
> > > -Chuck K8CPA
> > > http://www.politicalbyline.com
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