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Redirect to the other thread 73 Jeff

A lot of boards came out of Escondido and Southern California they were sold in bulk, RF Parts was the center of the universe with Billy the king of the Motorola market. I remember two guys that ran around SoCal selling radios, amps and parts to build them out of a old ambulance at one point...

That top one looks like a old BD built Gray, the bottom one Pride. The whole thing was Billy bought messanger when Victor stopped building, and he got a big pile of partially built amps he and a couple family members were building amps, then they found billy over his bench no longer with the...

This mess. This was one of the later ones that looked like a little kid wired them up. When Billy Ward passed a bunch of this stuff showed up on flea bay. The older ones didn't look like that, they were fairly neat but these .... 73 Jeff

That looks like a old TnT amp same guys who made the Supermod with2x455s and the big knob on the front. I would not doubt it was built that way. Post picture inside is it a mess of yellow Teflon wire? 73 Jeff

Moonrakers having a sale on radios and accessories. https://moonrakeronline.com/us/ 73 Jeff

The 4480A for one, no slugs, 2 to 1000 Mhz 4% The DPM 6000 comes to mind, Don't know if they are building that one anymore. The LPA 100 is quickly becoming a standard bench meter about $600 gets you a 3KW digital meter no slugs to worry about just plug and play. For the casual hobby user I just...

I posted this in another thread. Want to share this here. Decated to Jim 399. Floating high Gravity no longer holds you to the ground Rise above Jim ...

Type/ size of power supplies? Type of amp and transistor compliment of transistors in amp? Settings on meter? 73 Jeff

Decated to our friend Jim, 399. Floating high, gravity no longer holds you to the ground Rise above Jim.....

It was a really rough shock reading this,we had talked about his knees, my back procedures, he was good...... Vaya con Dios My Friend

Some lawyers are finding that the answers are often flawed in strange ways...... Life's going to be interesting 73 Jeff ( There was a time that finding any information about almost anything requiring using a thing called a card index.)

What happened? I just talked to him on the 3 of Dec and he was fine This is a shock We have lost to many radio friends lately, Jim was my first confirmed contact in Colombia many years ago..... God Speed my friend Jeff

It was decent for vehicle install work back when a lot of the county vehicles ran VHF lowband and I was ok just throwing the thing in a bag with other tools. The only thing that the Bird or Telewave has going for them is the solid enclosures the way I look at it. And your correct for a base...