Al Klein ) writes:
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:40:12 +1000, Simon
wrote:

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Al Klein wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:31:36 GMT, Simon
wrote:

Since when have CB amplifiers been recognised as boatanchors or is this
topic just spam from unthinking cross posting?

Running more than 4 watts on 27 MHz in the US has been illegal since
CB became legal here - 1961 IIRC. I don't know what the rules are in
Oz.

Al, yes more or less the same rules in Oz - type approval etc, but this
gear is not considered as a collectable boatanchor though, so a bit off
topic in the boatanchors forum - maybe an excess of cross-posting.

My fault for not noticing your ng. I guess *newer* amps wouldn't be
too collectable, although I do recall an article in QST (or was it CQ)
many years back about a pair of 4CW300s running in the trunk (boot) of
a car. That kind of amp would probably be considered pretty
collectable.

There was a guy, well known but I can't remember the name, something like
"Jo Emmings", who wrote a number of articles about fairly unusual amplifiers.
He either worked for Eimac or Varian, or a company that made vaccuum
variables. The articles I've seen were in CQ, in the late fifties.

MIchael VE2BVW