[Amps] Another eBay Goodie

[Fuqua, Bill L]

  Most likely someone gave him an offer he could not refuse.
It is against EBAY policy but some folks do remove items if they can make a private sale
and get out of paying EBAY. 
  Ebay quit doing anything about illegal amplifier sales many years ago. Just could not
handle the complaints and often the items are listed as 10meter amateur amplifiers.
It looked like it had an antenna tuner mounted under the chassis for impedance matching.
3 knobs. Just like the smaller MFJ knob pattern.
  It could be a modified Henry 2k or 5kW plasma generator. That would explain some of 
the nicely commercially built hardware. The  only difference between the two is  that 
the 2kW has one plate transformer and the 5k has two wired up in parallel. It is maybe
the only one of that power level that uses single phase power.

73
Bill wa4lav
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From: Amps [amps-bounces at contesting.com] on behalf of Carl [km1h at jeremy.mv.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 1:38 PM
To: Philip Townsend Lontz; Jim Garland
Cc: Amps reflector
Subject: Re: [Amps] Another eBay Goodie

Some busybody meathead likely complained about it being an illegal ham or CB
amp.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Townsend Lontz" <philji at mac.com>
To: "Jim Garland" <4cx250b at miamioh.edu>
Cc: "Amps reflector" <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Another eBay Goodie


> Looks like it has been pulled off eBay...
>
> A wise man once said nothing....
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Jim Garland <4cx250b at miamioh.edu> wrote:
>
>> I agree that the metalwork looks nicely done, and the amplifier may work
>> (though I'm dubious about the lower frequency bands), but IMHO its
>> esthetics
>> are just butt-ugly.
>> Jim W8ZR
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Amps [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Col. Paul
>>> E.
>> Cater
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:41 AM
>>> To: Carl
>>> Cc: Amps reflector
>>> Subject: Re: [Amps] Another eBay Goodie
>>>
>>> I think the build looks great and it may have been a plasma amplifier to
>>> start.  What caught my attention was the coil.  Just looking at it one
>>> wonders how it is going to tune below 12 or 15 meters, if that?  It
>>> looks
>>> like it is directly tied to the caps so nothing under the chassis.  But,
>> no
>>> pictures of the bottom.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>> WD8OSU
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Looks pretty decent from what I can see but it wont make it to 10M with
>>>> that inductor.
>>>>
>>>> No bandswitch so he is either feeding it thru a .01 cap or a Henry 8K
>>>> Ultra style of input balun. No under chassis pix is suspicious.
>>>>
>>>> There is plenty of room for a bigger inductor to get to 160 and larger
>>>> vacuum caps. Heck he even started the layout for the second tube.
>>>>
>>>> The crafstmnship is excellent, wonder if it was an RF generator?
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Col. Paul E. Cater" <
>>>> paulecater at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Amps reflector" <amps at contesting.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:50 PM
>>>>
>>>> Subject: [Amps] Another eBay Goodie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have a look at the pictures for this RF deck.  The seller states it
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> * "works broadband from 10 to 80 Mtrs
>>>>> Band"http://www.ebay.com/itm/HAM-RADIO-10-80-MTRS-
>>>>> 3CX3000A7-AMPLIFIER-RF-DECK-/201023804489?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276
>>>>> <http://www.ebay.com/itm/HAM-RADIO-10-80-MTRS-3CX3000A7-
>>>>> AMPLIFIER-RF-DECK-/201023804489?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276>*
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>> WD8OSU
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