I just by accident discovered this list! Great! I hope to get much assistance and opinions and knowledge from the people here. I have built SB-220's I have re-furbished many of the same. But I have n
Greetings Everyone, My first Official posting. Is anyone familiar with this offer on E-Bay to test tubes? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Power-Tube-Testing-Service-Low-Power-Eimac-Electron-Tubes-8877-8874-4
Any for a 4CX1000K ( SK820 ) Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 6/10/2016 12:18 PM, Radio WC6W via Amps wrote: A few Eimac tubes. Many
I have an old SB-220, That when it was running, ran like what? Holy COW! Long story. Anyway, I desire to being it back to life. It was last on the air in 1993. And has sat in storage places, and damp
When I made this posting , I was asking for whats everyone's thoughts were as to the best path to take to get this running again, with the minimal chance of destroying something. From what I have gat
bill, Care to share this Spreadsheet? Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 9/14/2016 6:42 PM, Bill Coleman wrote: Hi Benni, I plugged you
where are the details of thos umm "Overseas" amp? Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 9/14/2016 6:04 PM, Kevin wrote: There are two vers
Now I have been getting conflicting answers on initially bringing up a pair of these 3-500Z's from a long rest. (almost 25 years) Some say power them up with filament voltage only first and very slow
OK like a 3-500Z, 3CX bla bla bla etc. are triodes, plate, grid, and well filament. Most of these tubes run grounded grid correct? so the grid is simply grounded. Now the 4CX bla bla bla is plate, sc
add to the list of Pulls here, I got 8 of 4CX100K if anyone is interested. And if you want to compete with Italy, I got 4 of the 4CX15000A he he he Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle
This Thread is interesting, I have not dig into this old beast of a SB-220 yet to remember how or what the circuit is composed of. But back in the 80's This SB-220 had a mod added that made it run a
At this moment I'm VERY tempted to brew a concoction from these ingredients: To these hardware ingredients I would add some freely available software, such as Pavel Denim's software for the Red Pitay
On all this legal stuff. Ok a ready to use amp cant legally have more than 15 db of gain. Now how far down broken down that is, does an amp have to be, to be seen as a "KIT" From what I in the back o
Bill. What do you feel the intent of the FCC was when they granted Amateur Radio Licenses to American Citizens? REPLY: Now days there is also a political issue. There are about 700,000 hams, many or
Honestly? My 40 meter "Novice" First antenna Dipole, is still in the air. No Fancy Baluns, just RG-58 coax split at the center with porcelain insulators. Wire? Stranded 14 Ga house wire. Been radiati
Yup, and even if it was a direct relation, for every inch of stretch, on 40 it would only go down 5 Kc. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com
Well, thing is, I have heard the stories about stretching dipoles for 40+ years as being the gospel truth. so thought you may have been one of the believers. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball
Since we are sharing HV Death Wish events,, This is not so much with a AMP, but it IS with HV, MAJOR HV,,,, When I got my Novice in 1975, I had been a SWLer for a decade before that, and always had p
Put in the controlled bias circuit and they won't glow unless youre running RTTY or similar. And you can leave it in the SSB position all the time. Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle
Thinking further on this, just for giggles worth. OK Tuner was an old Johnson Kw matchbox, So technically there was no direct path to ground of the wire. And, say a mile of like 18 Ga alum wire,, any