Actually PJ, this used Transistors! It was all solid state.

"PJ" wrote in message
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Most of those amps utilized TV sweep tubes -- would guess by the 200 (200
watts).

Sweep tubes are rather expensive to obtain nowadays, so your junk scheme
looks pretty practical.


"radiosrfun" wrote in message
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I have an Amplifier - Penetrater HB 200 - which is labeled "Amateur
Bi-Linear". It has a switch for on/off (power) - and without looking at
it - the other I believe either for the receive pre-amp OR AM/SSB
operation. There is no "band select" switch on it.

I can't find a lick of info on this amp - have googled a couple times.
Any hits I got were non-informative - unless I missed one.

So - my question is - "was" this made for 10 meters - which I'm assuming
it would be being a "single band", OR for 11 meters?

At any rate - I acquired it some time ago - the "Finals" were removed.
I'm not sure if they were smoked "or" someone was wanting to put bigger
ones in it to beef it up.

The "Transformer" in this thing is hefty and probably constitutes about
3/4 of the weight of the Amp. Aside from the Tranny - there is a PC
board, the cabinet, connectors - thats about it. I had always thought of
trying to get the Tranny info - and "maybe" - seeing if there was a
possibility for a "multi-band" amp.

I would like to sell this thing for parts - whole or parted out. If
anyone has any info on it - so maybe the Transformer can be used
otherwise - or is interested in buying this, let me know.

Even if it were for "10 meters" - "I" have no use for it. Even as a Ham,
I've never used an Amp. Never needed to.