Here are some photos of my new Gates BC-1T project. As you can tell, the inside of the shack is not finished, nor am I done working on the conversion of the transmitter to the ham bands, however it is coming along. It is very difficult for me to get photos of the entire transmitter at once since it's not on a dolly yet, and I can not turn it enough to get the front square on, etc. The Meter sub-panel and the right access panel are removed to allow access to the guts right now. The wide angle lens I was using sort of distorted some of the edges as if they are bowed out.
We (my wife included) have worked hard with brushes, vacuum cleaner, Simple Green, Windex, and a lot of patience to get it where it is now. I still have some to do to get the inside pristine. It really was maintained very well by the station engineer at KVOC in Casper, WY, so it was mainly surface dust we had to remove. I'm pretty proud of how it is has come out at this point. None of the 833's are installed, nor are any of the rest of the tubes, for that matter. They will go in last. Here is a raw listing of the images, all JPEGS and under about 100k each: http://w5ami.net/bc-1t/ Brian / wa5am PS: I'd really like some ideas on simple PTT circuits for this thing. I basically know what it takes to do it, however if anyone has simplified the remote control Gates specifies, I would really like to hear about it. I'm going to run "rock bound" at first and try to use my Flex SDR as an RX. 73 de wa5am Brian -- Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
