Hi John.... Yep retired this old Raytheon in November of 2003. I'm hoping someone or someones will jump on this. I can't take this to NY with me. Like you say John about the parts, yeah it has a bunch of them that could come in handy for some project somewhere.
How many ofand where do you know of any RA 1000s still on the air in some sort of capacity? I don't know of many, and the ones that I've seen were in horrible shape. Bob Carter - KC4QLP -------------------------------------------------------------- Echolink RF node 56703 , 56704 / eQSO [RX] crosslink 145.250 VHF repeater,440.850 UHF link,29.630 repeater -------------------------------------------------------------- Bob So I see you retired a RA1000 there... I parted out the one I took apart at KBIM in Roswell last year. It had some big iron and very interesting RF inductors, with that Push Pull 833 RF stage. The output L with variometer will go into a first class balanced line tuner at some point in the future. Having motorized controls as well!!! Both modulation reactors and an RCA modulation transformer (mine had a spare L with it, 60 Hy) went to local AMers building new rigs - avoiding shipping costs. Many of the chokes and transformers got out to hams and also to a surplus dealer in Albuquerque where they were sold off. I was happy to take the trouble parting it up like that, as it was worth a lot more to several builders than to someone trying to fix it up (was in very sad condition when I scavenged it). Sometimes the vultures are a better ending of big rigs like that - although i know there are several still on the air on MW as well as in conversions. 73 John K5PRO > Speaking of ebay, I have some "heavy metal" up on ebay. [ > http://cgi.ebay.com/Raytheon-RA-1000-AM-Broadcast-transmitter_W0QQitemZ5797817632QQcategoryZ4675Q > QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ] > (watch the URL wrap) >
