Joe, I just spoke with John Fagan yesterday. Didn't know how wide his following was. He is fine by the way. I was on the OU faculty for 14 years (at the health sciences center in OKC), but John and I were the best of friends.
Ed, W9EJB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe & Judy Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:23 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] WRL Globe Champion 350 > Hi Kim, say hi to John Fagan for me! Look forward to hearing you on the > Globe Champ. I'm rebuilding my GK500B which I used as a kid and hope to > have it on sometime this year. > > Joe Christian > K5HMD > > At 11:59 AM 02/25/03 -0600, you wrote: > >Hello to you all, > > > >I'm a new list member and am delighted to find such a resource. > > > >I've been a ham for a bit over 30 years, but almost never operated AM > >until recently. However, my Dad, W5JHJ, has been a ham since, well, I'm > >not sure. Probably 62 or 63 years (he'll be 81 this September). He has > >had some health problems recently and, at 80 years old, is no Spring > >Chicken anymore. Anyway, he has some pretty neat old gear that he's > >maintained, which I used when I started out 30 years ago: a WRL Globe > >Champion 350 transmitter, a Hammarlund HQ-170 receiver, and a Hammarlund > >HQ-110 general coverage receiver. All of these he's had since new (the > >transmitter kit was purchased in March, 1959). He also has a mint > >condition FT-102 in superb condition. > > > >He's always maintained all of the gear in good working order and when I > >was very young (before kindergarten) was quite active. But, with family, > >the decline of AM in favor of SSB, and increasing job responsibilities, > >his activity waned. Recently, he's become interested in operating a > >bit. So, last Saturday, we fired everything up. Aside from dirty switch > >contacts, we got it all working fine. We even made a QSO with WA5UEK, in > >Plano, TX, early Saturday evening. > > > >However, as we tuned up the Globe, we noticed that the plate current > >swings down under modulation. Adjusting modulation gain doesn't seem to > >remove this tendency, though it is lessened until, of course, there is no > >modulation. I also notice very slight negative deflection of output > >power, too. Dad doesn't recall whether this was characteristic of the > >rig, and no mention is made in the manual. Our signal report was fine, > >though we were only a couple of S-units above the noise, so poor audio > >might not be noticed. > > > >I want to understand why we're seeing the negative deflections under > >modulation. I'd expect positive deflections, not negative ones. What is > >this telling me about the transmitter's operation? > > > >73, > > > >Kim Elmore, N5OP > > Kim Elmore, Ph.D. > > University of Oklahoma > > Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies > >"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The > >greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >AMRadio mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
