OK I am stupid, but......

[suddenseer]

"One-tenth," as in 0.1 Bel.

Ding Dong.

[KG4NEL]

50A will run anything you ever have. Unless its 2.5 KW.

Yeah, but it's Astron, so an "optimistic" 50A

5KW is chump change.

The former holder of K3FT (IIRC) was an FCC engineer who participated in a raid against one of the 75M "horse racers", as the old 3895 crowd was known. What they found required a Drake L4B running 2KW PEP output for drive power. All of the equipment including the antenna and grounding system was built to broadcast engineering standards.

I should have met the guy who was selling a 4CX10000 leenyer and 6-element quad locally. He wanted to trade it for a Harley or pickup.

[koØm]

Yeah, but it's Astron, so an "optimistic" 50A



I should have met the guy who was selling a 4CX10000 leenyer and 6-element quad locally. He wanted to trade it for a Harley or pickup.

Sounds like a fair trade if I could see the amp work and, if I did not have to bring the beams down myself.

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[kb2vxa]

"All of the equipment including the antenna and grounding system was built to broadcast engineering standards."

That sounds familiar, here's the infamous Cottage of Wattage with a 10KW Collins 21E inside.

[KG4NEL]

Sounds like a fair trade if I could see the amp work and, if I did not have to bring the beams down myself.

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Converting everything to 7/16" DIN is a little rich for my blood...

[VE7DCW]

"All of the equipment including the antenna and grounding system was built to broadcast engineering standards."

That sounds familiar, here's the infamous Cottage of Wattage with a 10KW Collins 21E inside.

"The Cottage of Wattage" ........ man...... I LIKE that one!!!!

[KF4ZGZ]

The used to be a cb'er around here that that would not talk unless his 10k was lit up.
I overheard someone ask him one night how many tubes he had inline at one time .....
His reply was , "at least 20". :shock:
When he was on the air i would get bleed over from 6m-20m .... unreal.

He's dead now .... I wouldn't be surprised rf exposure was a contributor.

I had a guy try to sell me a 100,000 watt ONE tube rf deck once.
He said it was used in his business making wood laminate products, and this one was being replace with a newer, bigger unit.
He also said it came with the name of a guy who could put it on the air in whatever frequency range I wanted. :shock:

Matt

[kb2vxa]

"The Cottage of Wattage" ........ man...... I LIKE that one!!!!"
That's what it's called on the web site I downloaded the picture from. Google the name, I disclaim any responsibility. (;->)

"I had a guy try to sell me a 100,000 watt ONE tube rf deck once."
We have Misfit Island, CBers have Fantasy Island.
It is possible however in the wonderful world of Collins and the VOA, the defunct Bethany, OH site had 4 250KW transmitters with two tubes in the final. The site that really strapped during the VOA vs. Radio Moscow propaganda war was Greenville, NC with one of those mofos driving a ONE TUBE 2MW amp into a Sterba Curtain giving it 20MW ERP. Incidentally, broadcast transmitters are rated in unmodulated carrier output. Can you say ouch?

[koØm]

So much that I wear it's Serial Number tad around my neck like Army Dog Tags.

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It was manufactured on the 19th day of the fifth month in 1993

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