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Someone in the "9" call area is "GUILTY" of building this "amplifer", it came out of the Anderson, Indiana area.
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27 inches by 24 inches by 14 inches high and totally unmanagable and, un-serviceable. Have you ever seen this or one like it?
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KG4CGC
06-12-2010, 08:39 AM
How much did you give for it?
Don't know, But it shure is LARGE enough.
WØTKX
06-12-2010, 11:12 AM
Uhhh, WA9SXJ, Ray? :rofl:
I kid, I kid! He's in WI.
P.S. Sorry Ray, if you EVER join up here... :mrgreen:
27 inches by 24 inches by 14 inches high and totally unmanagable and, un-serviceable. Have you ever seen this or one like it?
Yes - operational and in the trunk of "Longhead's" car at the Findlay hamfest one year.
Oh, wait...that was a pair of 8877s. Nevermind...
KG4CGC
06-12-2010, 12:33 PM
The only ham I know out of Anderson Indiana is IBC and he's been on the air since receiving his 718.
How much did you give for it?
Nooooo, not me! They have this new CB'er bent over the barrel and everybody in a 100 mile radius is taking a shot at putting the pork in him. He paid $1,100 buck for it based on the claim that it had new tubes in it.
KG4CGC
06-12-2010, 12:48 PM
I guess Super Bowl fans everywhere will be hearing him soon then.
"Side to side and nation wide!"
VE7DCW
06-13-2010, 09:27 PM
I guess Super Bowl fans everywhere will be hearing him soon then.
"Side to side and nation wide!"
And a big ...."Rog-oooooo ....Rog-eeeeeee .... don't you know and don't you see..." to all the putty heads on ..... CB channel 6, i'm assuming thats the "Super Bowl" whence one speaks of... :roll:
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I guess Super Bowl fans everywhere will be hearing him soon then.
"Side to side and nation wide!"
He has 7 elements on a 37.5 foot boom 50 feet in the air, the amp is working like a freight train but, he is not a "Super Bowl Operator". He can dominate 39 other channels but, they will not acknowledge him on Channel 6 because they don't know him; "10,000 watts don't make you 10-8 and, long-winded only makes your breath stank".
KG4CGC
06-18-2010, 09:30 PM
He has 7 elements on a 37.5 foot boom 50 feet in the air, the amp is working like a freight train but, he is not a "Super Bowl Operator". He can dominate 39 other channels but, they will not acknowledge him on Channel 6 because they don't know him; "10,000 watts don't make you 10-8 and, long-winded only makes your breath stank".
LOL! I used to be able to the Cadillac Man, everyday, mobile in SC.
Someone in the "9" call area is "GUILTY" of building this "amplifer", it came out of the Anderson, Indiana area.
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n150/Paws264/08/DCP00956.jpg
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n150/Paws264/08/DCP00957.jpg
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n150/Paws264/08/DCP00958.jpg
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n150/Paws264/08/DCP00961.jpg
27 inches by 24 inches by 14 inches high and totally unmanagable and, un-serviceable. Have you ever seen this or one like it?
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Man allegedly tries to steal downed Duke transformer
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Read more: http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/region_central_cincinnati/springfield_township/Man-allegedly-tries-to-steal-downed-Duke-transformer#ixzz1lcEmOa3Q
Pictured above is a 3 tube 3-500Z amplifier, the owner added 2 more tubes to make it a 5-tuber however, he needed more B+ so, what does he do?
Read the story!
He told me about this incident back in November and I dismissed it along with most of his other CB conversation but, he was not lying this time!
ROFL my former "Amplifer-fixing" Ass off! That's him pictured above.
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I guess Super Bowl fans everywhere will be hearing him soon then.
"Side to side and nation wide!"
Don't you mean Nationwide & on the side?
Just so long as he doesn't carry around a blue telephone...
W2NAP
02-06-2012, 01:17 PM
how did I miss this one.
KG4CGC
02-06-2012, 03:45 PM
Don't you mean Nationwide & on the side?
Just so long as he doesn't carry around a blue telephone...
I can only relay what I actually hear through that distorted audio.
KA9MOT
02-06-2012, 05:04 PM
Whoever built it did a nice job judging by the pictures... Can it be cleaned up and re-purposed?
how did I miss this one.
Have you ever "heard" or heard of an operator called "Big O" around your area?
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The problem with it and, most homebrewed amplifiers are that they are built around parts that have been collected over a long period of time, the physical topography is a joke. Once they have all the parts, they have to find a case to hold them all in. Clearly, that piece of equipment was built around that mile-long Load Variable and those bulky oil filled capacitors.
The thing is just too big, too heavy and now, too JINXED to touch; tain't nuthin' but bad news and bad luck associated with that amplifier.
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KG4CGC
02-06-2012, 09:11 PM
Have you ever "heard" or heard of an operator called "Big O" around your area?
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Was he on Oprah?
Was he on Oprah?
"Big O" is Oprah.
KG4CGC
02-06-2012, 09:40 PM
"Big O" is Oprah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_O
"Big O" is Oprah.
Now, that's a picture; Oprah Winphrey and Gail King traveling cross country talking back and forths on th CB as they go....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_O
The "Big O" from Cincy
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Robertson)
W2NAP
02-07-2012, 01:43 AM
Have you ever "heard" or heard of an operator called "Big O" around your area?
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The problem with it and, most homebrewed amplifiers are that they are built around parts that have been collected over a long period of time, the physical topography is a joke. Once they have all the parts, they have to find a case to hold them all in. Clearly, that piece of equipment was built around that mile-long Load Variable and those bulky oil filled capacitors.
The thing is just too big, too heavy and now, too JINXED to touch; tain't nuthin' but bad news and bad luck associated with that amplifier.
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nope. but if the pic is of the anderson owner. then it is prob. someone i knew as dirtrunner or nighthawk (only 2 black 11 meter operators around here) and they havent been active in years. dirtrunner used to run about 5k
and truthfully I only know of 1 guy would even be capable of building something like this. and i know he didnt. so i doubt it was built in anderson
W1GUH
02-13-2012, 01:09 AM
Dunno....a question like , "OK, Who did it?" is usually answered, "Whoever first smelt it, dealt it!"
w0aew
02-13-2012, 09:42 AM
The transformer was downed and laying by the road wrapped in caution tape.
Don't journalists still have to take freshman English?
n2ize
02-14-2012, 10:47 AM
How many pills ?
kb2vxa
02-15-2012, 04:20 PM
Oh, about 20,000 2N107s.
nope. but if the pic is of the anderson owner. then it is prob. someone i knew as dirtrunner or nighthawk (only 2 black 11 meter operators around here) and they havent been active in years. dirtrunner used to run about 5k
and truthfully I only know of 1 guy would even be capable of building something like this. and i know he didnt. so i doubt it was built in anderson
No, that's the Cincinnati owner.
......For som reason, he will not return my phone calls or text messages.......
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W2NAP
02-17-2012, 01:09 AM
No, that's the Cincinnati owner.
......For som reason, he will not return my phone calls or text messages.......
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ok well then I still have no idea where it came from then. prob dirtrunner, nighthawk, maybe snakeskin (he died some years ago) but i doubt it was built here
KG4CGC
02-17-2012, 01:14 AM
ok well then I still have no idea where it came from then. prob dirtrunner, nighthawk, maybe snakeskin (he died some years ago) but i doubt it was built here
Grave Digger.
KA9MOT
02-17-2012, 01:22 AM
Panty Snatcher!
We used to have a real nice black fella in Monmouth who claimed to have 5K from 2 steel tubes and called himself BlackJack. I always knew when I was with-in 15 miles of home when I was trucking.....Old BlackJack would shut down all 40 channels to everything but stations that were very close. He died or moved on........don't know what happened to him.
Then we had old Shotgun...He was a drunken asshole. He has something that had 10 tubes and a Cobra 140 something base... 142 maybe. He was a huge pain in the ass. All over 10M, and then one day he went silent. I found out later his signal was so dirty that he was bleeding over onto the State Police 46MHz radios, and they went and knocked at his door......
K7SGJ
02-19-2012, 12:35 AM
No, that's the Cincinnati owner.
......For som reason, he will not return my phone calls or text messages.......
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I have the same problem with Eva Mendes.
No, that's the Cincinnati owner.
......For som reason, he will not return my phone calls or text messages.......
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'cause I told him I had this X-Former (2600 /3300 VDC CCS amps) for sale but,
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he figured "Free" was "Better". Their gonna burn his butt, the system sees him as just another copper thief but they do not know that he's a 'Super CB Tek' who was gonna use that thing to talk to Hawaii.
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VE7DCW
02-20-2012, 12:02 AM
Panty Snatcher!
We used to have a real nice black fella in Monmouth who claimed to have 5K from 2 steel tubes and called himself BlackJack. I always knew when I was with-in 15 miles of home when I was trucking.....Old BlackJack would shut down all 40 channels to everything but stations that were very close. He died or moved on........don't know what happened to him.
Then we had old Shotgun...He was a drunken asshole. He has something that had 10 tubes and a Cobra 140 something base... 142 maybe. He was a huge pain in the ass. All over 10M, and then one day he went silent. I found out later his signal was so dirty that he was bleeding over onto the State Police 46MHz radios, and they went and knocked at his door......
I'm assuming thats what the expression "Linear Lunatics" actually meant! ....... I always believed that these stories were greatly exaggerated and they remained just a bunch of tall tales .....nope I have since become a true believer and sincerely apologise to those I have doubted ......it boggles the mind :shock:
kb2vxa
02-21-2012, 02:28 PM
Shotgun, well, it fits. We don't call bursts of splatter buckshot for nothing.
Back when CB was (more) popular in the area, I used to know a lot of the 'Bowl regulars. Some eventually got ham tickets, some got busted, some got bored...but time caught up with most of them. Only one or two active strappers in this vicinity and unless things are rolling you never hear a peep out of them.
Sad in a way. There aren't a lot of people filling the RF hobbyist void, and those who do seem all too enmeshed in the EmComm boondoggle.
KA9MOT
02-21-2012, 09:06 PM
Back when CB was (more) popular in the area, I used to know a lot of the 'Bowl regulars. Some eventually got ham tickets, some got busted, some got bored...but time caught up with most of them. Only one or two active strappers in this vicinity and unless things are rolling you never hear a peep out of them.
Sad in a way. There aren't a lot of people filling the RF hobbyist void, and those who do seem all too enmeshed in the EmComm boondoggle.
Heh heh heh......he said WHACKER! Old Shotgun showed up at our club meeting one night and wanted to know how to get his Ham Ticket......Everybody agreed to steer Shotgun down a different path....one that didn't involve radio.
'cause I told him I had this X-Former (2600 /3300 VDC CCS amps) for sale but,
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he figured "Free" was "Better". Their gonna burn his butt, the system sees him as just another copper thief but they do not know that he's a 'Super CB Tek' who was gonna use that thing to talk to Hawaii.
.What do you want for the transformer?
kb2vxa
02-23-2012, 05:33 PM
My favorite AM gangsta probably has a few around.
VE7DCW
02-26-2012, 11:09 PM
My favorite AM gangsta probably has a few around.
Geeeez ....to quote Tim Allen ....."more power" well done!
What do you want for the transformer?
Transformer is mounted in cabinet with 2 contactors and 8 X 400 uf electrolytics plus diodes (Heathkit Configuration). This was a working unit until the neighbors took a petition to the Village Council.
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Power supply for this decommissioned monster.
Price: That number I gave you in the PM or "OBO".
K7SGJ
02-27-2012, 08:42 AM
Transformer is mounted in cabinet with 2 contactors and 8 X 400 uf electrolytics plus diodes (Heathkit Configuration). This was a working unit until the neighbors took a petition to the Village Council.
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http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n150/Paws264/2011/IMG_20110903_173850.jpg
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n150/Paws264/2011/beast.jpg
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Power supply for this decommissioned monster.
Price: That number I gave you in the PM or "OBO".
Looks like someone was watching the Cooking Channel instead of Tool Time by the looks of the inside. "Just add water".
kb2vxa
02-28-2012, 02:23 PM
There's only one who combined the two... bon appitit!
K7SGJ
02-28-2012, 02:48 PM
There's only one who combined the two... bon appitit!
I still love watching her old shows. I always thought the SNL skit about her was one of the best, ever.
Well shit. I had posted the link to Hulu but you have to watch their commercial first. The bastids.
Man allegedly tries to steal downed Duke transformer
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Read more: http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/region_central_cincinnati/springfield_township/Man-allegedly-tries-to-steal-downed-Duke-transformer#ixzz1lcEmOa3Q
Pictured above is a 3 tube 3-500Z amplifier, the owner added 2 more tubes to make it a 5-tuber however, he needed more B+ so, what does he do?
Read the story!
He told me about this incident back in November and I dismissed it along with most of his other CB conversation but, he was not lying this time!
ROFL my former "Amplifer-fixing" Ass off! That's him pictured above.
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He beat the case!
Now, he's gonna try to sue the Police in the village that arrested him
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PA5COR
05-21-2012, 11:06 AM
Yuck.
kb2vxa
05-22-2012, 02:25 PM
After telling the story of lights dimming, Niagara Falls running backward and a 96 million mile long extension cord...
"That's not an eclipse, punkie. When I key up the SUN dims!"
Da Crushah
I was told that in the "good ole days" a guy by the name of Cyril Balwah 9Y4LQ had a seriously QRO setup.
This is well beyond legal power - he was doing at least 10kw.
He used an old pole pig that he got from a friend who worked at the electric co to power it, and wired it directly to his electric panel.
When he keyed up, if he wasn't careful the whole neighborhood would go dark because the fuse would trip on the transformer on the pole.
yup, not wimpy SSB, but 10kw carrier on AM. Musta been a helluva setup. Man those guys sure knew how to have fun.
kb2vxa
05-23-2012, 08:15 PM
Reminds me of Tesla in Colorado Springs when he burned out the dynamo at El Paso Electric and the whole city went dark. Cyril will just have to try a little harder, like powering the transmitter directly off the HV primaries. Oh, I know a Collins 21E on 160 with a special 480V 3 phase hookup powering it, no backward pig Trinidadian Engineering either.
KG4NEL
05-27-2012, 12:59 PM
I was told that in the "good ole days" a guy by the name of Cyril Balwah 9Y4LQ had a seriously QRO setup.
This is well beyond legal power - he was doing at least 10kw.
He used an old pole pig that he got from a friend who worked at the electric co to power it, and wired it directly to his electric panel.
When he keyed up, if he wasn't careful the whole neighborhood would go dark because the fuse would trip on the transformer on the pole.
yup, not wimpy SSB, but 10kw carrier on AM. Musta been a helluva setup. Man those guys sure knew how to have fun.
Not too long ago on Craigslist, there was a guy selling a 4CX10000A amp, 50' tower and a 6-element quad. I'd hate to know how high above MPE limits his neighbors were :-D
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