This was a fairly recent Continental 5KW transmitter, all solid state except for the single ceramic PA tube maybe a 4cx5000. I figured little value for ham so it was sold to another small station. It would be very difficult to get a bc rig into my shack but there could be room in the garage for one. This weekend I have to lower the crankup and repair my 40 meter dipole that fell in recent high winds. I listen most evenings on 7160 but often hear little AM. I am told when I am on I am very loud in some parts of the country. I understand that 375 watts of carrier is all that is allowed on AM. I used to think it was 1KW back in the 50s when I used to visit my ham neighbor.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Coleman" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] old BC AM FM or TV rigs > Jim: > There might have been a lot of cool parts in that FM station. For > instance, I was given and old GE 10KW TV XMTR back about 30 years ago. It > had a lot of stuff I did not want, but others did, and it had a whole lot > of stuff that was "way" cool that I wanted. It had 270 degree 1ma meter > movement and large precision wire wound meter multiplying resistors. It > had several large plate XFMRS and chokes. It had oil capacitors. Two of > the chokes were 12 Hy open frame construction which Don, K4KYV, > disassemble and rebuilt into a single 40Hy modulation reactor which I am > very proud to have and I use still today. There were mercury vapor > rectifiers and filament XFMRS. All of these things an more (I can't name > all) were used in the construction of my PP-304tL rig. And parts that I > did not want went all over the South, Of course you must have an empty > garage to do all this in and that is where most folks say "no", as they > might to building their own vehicle from scrap. I > f I had it to do now I would have to say "no" because there is just no > time or space in my life right now. Hopefully that will change before I > get to old to walk. > > Anyway I hope someone got the old FM rig and used the parts. > John, WA5BXO > > > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
