[VHFcontesting] Source for Takamisawa (ITT) GZ 12H DPDT 12v relays on Ebay

[Donald Fox]

Good Thursday afternoon all:

For those who enjoy bringing older/no longer in production amplifiers (specifically solid state) back to life, seller dnutt has a quantity of these
ITT relays available for $3.50 each in lots of 10. I have found that some of the old school Lunar Electronics amps made use of them as the main TX relay in the larger models. In my case, I have one of the rare 2M10-200P models with one of these that is bad. 

As a young ham in the early 80's, I recall when LE was in business out on the west coast, and at the time it seemed that their stuff was a bit better quality than others like Mirage, Heathkit, etc. They offered quite a range of 220 mhz models when that band was a bit more popular. 

In the last few years, the ham community has lost Hygain, Cushcraft, Ameritron under the MFJ umbrella, along with TE Systems it appears.
>From what I can tell, no one offers smaller or moderate amps for the 220 band at present that are linear for SSB. Places like Beko and others across the 
pond make good stuff that runs 500 watts and up, but none of these are what I'd call inexpensive.

I have zero interest or connection to seller dnutt. Just passing along the info in case someone might be looking for said relay.


Don   N8ECH