[TenTec] Orion AM ALC/304's

[Bill Harris]

PP 304's !  What a beautiful sigh with eight bright filaments and plates.  At twenty-five cents per tube, in the late 40's, you couldn't go wrong. 
Ten meters was also HOT.  Fun times.
Later
BillHarris-w7kxb

> From: Rsoifer at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:36:30 -0400
> To: geraldj at weather.net; tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion AM ALC
> 
> Jerry is right about power limits.  Under the  present rule  limiting PEP 
> output, there is no point in running more than 100% positive  modulation, or 
> much more than that anyway.  As for the 1950s "ultra  modulation" system, as 
> I mentioned earlier we had one at W1MX and to my  knowledge we never got a 
> splatter complaint.  I can't tell you, however,  how much over 100% we 
> actually went -- probably not too much over, due to the  tubes (pair of 304THs 
> modulating a pair of 304TLs), transformers and power  supply.  I just don't 
> remember, because I operated mainly CW then as I do  now.  I used AM only to 
> keep skeds.
>  
> 73 Ray W2RS
> .  
>  
>  
> In a message dated 6/17/2010 3:06:09 A.M. GMT Standard Time,  
> geraldj at weather.net writes:
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