Has anyone considered trying to find a speaker out of an old console radio or hi fi. The tube amps in them rarely made more than 10 watts. I use a entensiion speaker from an old Zenith set with a 10" woofer and a pizzo tweeter and it drives real good from a 3 watt portable radio. WB5OXQ
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Coleman" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters R-12 speaker >I agree Bob. Maybe Brian intends to put a pair of 805 between the receiver >and the speaker and play some guitar. At any rate I'm sure he has his >reasons. > > I might go with this one > (http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=290-486), and > even it is an over kill but selection of 12 inch speakers with less than > a 20 watt rating are few and far between. Many times I will cut a board > to fit where the speaker goes and then mount a smaller speaker to the > board. In most cases the smaller speaker has better sound due to modern > manufacturing and tech specs than the older one. > http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=290-486 > > 73, John > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
