Don Moore R Moore wrote:
I have a older BC 1F series gates transmitter. I would like to do away
with the 845 driver tubes and drive the 833's with a 100 watt PA amp.
Does anybody have any Ideas what I would need to match the amp to the
driver transformer of the 833's.
Don Moore
W5FFK
http://www.qsl.net/wa5bxo/driver1.html
I use it here, with an old Bogen PA amp.
I've run two different versions of this, with the help and aid of WA5BXO.
Originally, the audio was taken from the plates of the output tubes in the PA, through some DC
Blocking caps (0.6uF @ 450v as I recall) to the hi-Z side of a small'ish (6AQ5 type) output
transformer to act as a choke, straight to the bases of a pair of ECG164 vertical output
transistors, configured in an emitter-follower fashion. The emitter output, with bias voltage
applied through some high-wattage resistors, is then fed directly to the grids
of the modulators.
In my case, I'm using a pair of 250TH's in the modulator, which, in normal/typical operation,
require around 450vpk grid to grid drive. With 300vcc on the collectors, a maximum of
around 600vpk is available. The regulated bias supply swings from 0 ~ -150VDC.
250TH's
require around -75v w/3kV on the plates, to idle the tubes at around 100mA.
The end effect is, no inter-stage driving transformer is required, which would introduce a
loss in frequency response due to a non-linear hysteresis curve through the
driving transformer.
Whatever audio component is produced on the plates of the speech-amp, is what
is applied
to the grids of the Class B modulators.
The 2nd incarnation of this circuit has the speech-amp audio coming straight
from the plates
of the output section, to a Hi-Z (6kOhm) 1:1 transformer, with the secondary
actiing as the
Hi-Z choke.
What a FINE Job it does, too.
Unfortunatly, I'm infected with the ham operators most dreaded disease;
neighboritis.
As a result, I normally only run ~100w after 6am... and on the Early-Risers AM
(ERAM)
session, the rig is up around 200w. Since I'm using seperate power supplies,
wired in
series, when running lower power, I turn off the modulator supply, to use
common voltage
for the final and modulator.
Positive peaks suffer, but when you're talking only a couple of hundred miles,
band conditions
don't really factor a lot. Some QSB, but conditions to 200miles are stable all
through the day
here in South Texas. Long Haul stuff gets the higher B+ on the modulator, to
produce positive
peaks that approach 4:1. (see
http://w5omr.shacknet.nu/~wa5bxo/asyam/Amplitude%20Modulation.htm)
(BTW, John - I copied the files to my server, because of how slow QSL.Net has
been of late)
Pictures and schematics of modulator are available at
http://w5omr.shacknet.nu/~w5omr/hamstuff/AM-Stuff/Titanic/modulator/
73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
