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Even if you HATE Ebay posts - just look at this thing! It's the most horridly constructed piece of gear I think I've ever seen - at it runs 2KV and half an amp!! LOTS of photos and description at the above link. I bought it in '96 for the parts, but have kept it in my own shack all this time just because it is SO UGLY in a very fun way - it's like every possible example of how NOT to build something, and come close to dying in the process. Unbelievable. This is the definition of a 'widow maker' I'm hoping someone will buy it to keep it together for the fun of it, instead of gutting the parts. I am liquidating my shack (and most of my other clutter too) and don't want it anymore, but ya GOTTA see this thing! It really is a sight to behold. And for GOD'S SAKE don't plug it in! I don't even want to be in the room if you did! Thanks for looking, and please don't take offense at my post. |
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![]() "GS" wrote in message news.com... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3064839871 Even if you HATE Ebay posts - just look at this thing! It's the most horridly constructed piece of gear I think I've ever seen - at it runs 2KV and half an amp!! You're right! That IS the ugliest, most crudely constructed thing I have ever seen. I built better looking AM transmitters than that when I was 19! (FM, too). You're also right about not plugging it in.. (let alone turning it on). That fan reminds me of a stirrer in a microwave oven.. kicking the RF around inside the case.. ROFL.. All in all, good for entertainment purposes.... |
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![]() "GS" wrote in message news.com... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3064839871 Even if you HATE Ebay posts - just look at this thing! It's the most horridly constructed piece of gear I think I've ever seen - at it runs 2KV and half an amp!! LOTS of photos and description at the above link. I bought it in '96 for the parts, but have kept it in my own shack all this time just because it is SO UGLY in a very fun way - it's like every possible example of how NOT to build something, and come close to dying in the process. Unbelievable. This is the definition of a 'widow maker' I'm hoping someone will buy it to keep it together for the fun of it, instead of gutting the parts. I am liquidating my shack (and most of my other clutter too) and don't want it anymore, but ya GOTTA see this thing! It really is a sight to behold. And for GOD'S SAKE don't plug it in! I don't even want to be in the room if you did! Thanks for looking, and please don't take offense at my post. Yeah, it IS crude looking. I love the little details, like the big holes created by a chain of little drill holes. And the fan delivers on two levels; first, the blade is home-made, from a piece of sheet metal, and second, when the blade radius wouldn't clear the chassis, a triangular hunk was whacked away for blade clearance. Nice touch. Front-panel artwork by flow-pen is also very classy. But the funny thing is that it just might be darned reliable. True, before I put it on the air, I would do a good smoke test, and I would check it for spurious and microphonics. But remember, aside from that one unfortunate mistake, Igor was a good lab assistant. Ed WB6WSN |
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:19:16 GMT, "GS"
wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3064839871 Even if you HATE Ebay posts - just look at this thing! It's the most horridly constructed piece of gear I think I've ever seen - at it runs 2KV and half an amp!! LOTS of photos and description at the above link. Wellll... Technically you are correct, but had it been a transmitter I might have been able to have given you a run for the money. I built my first "homebrew" transmitter using the parts from a TV chassis. Not the chassis of today, but back when TVs were all tubes and used a chassis about 2 foot square and 3 to 4 inches deep. The power transformer was quite a bit bigger than the ones used in any of today's 100 watt output rigs. I built the old standard 6AG7 Oscillator with a pair of 6L6s in the final. I've forgotten if it used a separate driver. At any rate it was built in one corner of a stripped chassis. Looked kinda lonesome in there. It worked, easily ran the 75 watts permitted to a Novice back then and it was *big* albeit with a center of gravity a bit off center. Later on after moving up to a Viking Ranger, I stripped all the parts out and used a 12AT7 as an electronic TR switch. Just one little tube and that big transformer in one corner of that big steel chassis. I was able to set the transmitter on the TR switch with lots of room to spare. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair?) www.rogerhalstead.com Return address modified due to dumb virus checkers I bought it in '96 for the parts, but have kept it in my own shack all this time just because it is SO UGLY in a very fun way - it's like every possible example of how NOT to build something, and come close to dying in the process. Unbelievable. This is the definition of a 'widow maker' I'm hoping someone will buy it to keep it together for the fun of it, instead of gutting the parts. I am liquidating my shack (and most of my other clutter too) and don't want it anymore, but ya GOTTA see this thing! It really is a sight to behold. And for GOD'S SAKE don't plug it in! I don't even want to be in the room if you did! Thanks for looking, and please don't take offense at my post. |
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Ed Price wrote:
Yeah, it IS crude looking. I love the little details, like the big holes created by a chain of little drill holes. And the fan delivers on two levels; first, the blade is home-made, from a piece of sheet metal, and second, when the blade radius wouldn't clear the chassis, a triangular hunk was whacked away for blade clearance. Nice touch. The fan is kind of scary. But I have to admit that it's no worse than some of the equipment I built in high school, and some of the construction techniques are very similar. Including drilling lots of little holes when I had no Greenlee punch, and using expanded metal from old oil filters for shielding. Admittedly, the biggest thing I ever built at the time used a pair of 6L6es as finals, but it was hot chassis which is even more alarming today. But I am here and I _almost_ got a WAS with that rig, in spite of solder joints that a plumber wouldn't have accepted. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Roger Halstead wrote:
I built my first "homebrew" transmitter using the parts from a TV chassis. Not the chassis of today, but back when TVs were all tubes and used a chassis about 2 foot square and 3 to 4 inches deep. The power transformer was quite a bit bigger than the ones used in any of today's 100 watt output rigs. I built the old standard 6AG7 Oscillator with a pair of 6L6s in the final. I've forgotten if it used a separate driver. At any rate it was built in one corner of a stripped chassis. Looked kinda lonesome in there. Did you keep the high voltage cage box and built as much as possible inside it? I really miss those things... very handy for homebrew construction and well-shielded. It worked, easily ran the 75 watts permitted to a Novice back then and it was *big* albeit with a center of gravity a bit off center. Later on after moving up to a Viking Ranger, I stripped all the parts out and used a 12AT7 as an electronic TR switch. Just one little tube and that big transformer in one corner of that big steel chassis. I was able to set the transmitter on the TR switch with lots of room to spare. The hacksaw is your friend! What I liked were those aluminum BUD chassis boxes. Much easier to work with than a steel TV set chassis, but by the time I got them at hamfests, they usually had quite a few holes in them already. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Hey, what's the problem? The thing looks great! Why, the controls are even
*labelled*!! "GS" wrote in message news.com... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3064839871 Even if you HATE Ebay posts - just look at this thing! It's the most horridly constructed piece of gear I think I've ever seen - at it runs 2KV and half an amp!! LOTS of photos and description at the above link. I bought it in '96 for the parts, but have kept it in my own shack all this time just because it is SO UGLY in a very fun way - it's like every possible example of how NOT to build something, and come close to dying in the process. Unbelievable. This is the definition of a 'widow maker' I'm hoping someone will buy it to keep it together for the fun of it, instead of gutting the parts. I am liquidating my shack (and most of my other clutter too) and don't want it anymore, but ya GOTTA see this thing! It really is a sight to behold. And for GOD'S SAKE don't plug it in! I don't even want to be in the room if you did! Thanks for looking, and please don't take offense at my post. |
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Peter Gottlieb wrote:
Hey, what's the problem? The thing looks great! Why, the controls are even *labelled*!! A REAL HAM would have used a Dymo labeler. -Bill |
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- - Bill - - exray@coquidotnet wrote:
Peter Gottlieb wrote: Hey, what's the problem? The thing looks great! Why, the controls are even *labelled*!! A REAL HAM would have used a Dymo labeler. A real ham would have known not to use series wound TV transformers when you can get 1 KV magnetron transformers for free from dead microwave ovens. And they have filament windings, even! --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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GS wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3064839871 Even if you HATE Ebay posts - just look at this thing! I would have gone for it, but there didn't appear to be any simple way to add the WARC bands! Is there a kit available? :-) Irv VE6BP -------------------- Visit my very special website at http://members.shaw.ca/finkirv4/ -------------------- Irv Finkleman, Grampa/Ex-Navy/Old Fart/Ham Radio VE6BP Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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