In relation to Tom's recollection of that 4-1000 amp, I remember the
first time I saw someone using a tube with more than the spec sheet
values on the tubes. In this case it was a friend who had a homebrew
amp with two 3-500Z and a really large pole pig transformer. He also
varied one leg of it with a space station sized variac. He kept
pushing the voltage higher till it was over the 6KV, I don't recall
the final KV, I was looking at the tubes & Bird. The tubes were white
hot and the bird was at 3KW when the output dropped like a stone.
Turned out the solder had melted from the pins on one of the 3-500Zs.
Nothing like the output from the large amps but I was amazed the
anodes didn't melt they were so white hot.
Gary
KA1J
I was doing a Multi with a station who had a 4-1000 amp.
There was a station on 40 that we were trying to get and he kept
turning the steering wheel on the power supply up and calling him. We
finally worked the station when the watt meter was bouncing on 3000
watts :-) That was about the best I've seen. 73 Tom W7WHY
WJ2W wrote:
>
>Does anyone know what the record is for the most watts ever run on
>amateur radio? Transmitted watts, not ERP. Just curious about the
>number. No callsigns needed. Thanks. ~Jordan WJ2W
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