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  1. Bionic Chicken

    What is it?

    I'd say Digital Sports. Or maybe LDO (Long Distance Operator). Very little difference between all of those type amps with the stud mount devices.
  2. Bionic Chicken

    Heathkit SB-220

    I'm sure the box works great but the tubes are a mounted a little close together for good air flow to them. But that is what happens when you have it "all in one". Outboarding the HV supply (plate transformer, rectifiers, and caps) will let you "line" them up and provide cooling enough for all...
  3. Bionic Chicken

    Cobra 2000GTL, clock but no power on.

    Isn't there also an AC/DC switch on the back of the radio? If it doesn't operate off of AC or DC I would suspect the power on/off switch to start with. There were also some issues with the alarm and snooze options that can cause this.
  4. Bionic Chicken

    Maco Shooting Star

    The Shooting Star was a remnant of Wilson Antenna that Maco bought out years ago. Maco continued to produce the antenna until they closed the doors. It is basically the same design as a Moonraker 4 without the hubs for element mounting. If I remember correctly the element spacing and lengths...
  5. Bionic Chicken

    Heathkit SB-220

    Nice way to recycle an old JB 2000!!
  6. Bionic Chicken

    Heathkit SB-220

    Yep. If you outboard the power supply and filament you have plenty room to work with and to provide adequate cooling from top and bottom. I like the way some of the John Boy 3 tubers are laid out with air sockets and chimneys. Not all are this way that I have seen though.
  7. Bionic Chicken

    Found This Badboy!!!! Just for looks!!!

    The cover on the back will come in handy to keep all the 6 volt batteries out of the weather. That along with a few 300 amp Leece's will feed a hungry amp.
  8. Bionic Chicken

    Found This Badboy!!!! Just for looks!!!

    Is it bottle fed? Looks like one mounted on the hump by the shifter.
  9. Bionic Chicken

    How To Get CA3045 Tweety To Fire On Key Down

    Change the value of the cap to make the squirt longer or shorter. Glad you got it to working. Waiting on the royalty checks to start rolling in. LOL
  10. Bionic Chicken

    Heathkit SB-220

    Three tuber!!! Cool.
  11. Bionic Chicken

    How To Get CA3045 Tweety To Fire On Key Down

    Hook it up so the ground wire goes to ground when keyed. With a cap installed as described above you will have a "squirt" when it keys.
  12. Bionic Chicken

    Heathkit SB-220

    The power supply upgrade and the PD transformer are very good additions to a SB220, especially if you are going to use it on AM. Hopefully you got the beefed up transformer as it is well worth the extra bucks! The single stock transformer is not quite enough for two tubes but two stock...
  13. Bionic Chicken

    Woody D104

    This sure would look good attached to a set of Browning radios.... Astatic D-104 Walnut Browning Cobra Galaxy Hand Made - eBay (item 220587557122 end time Apr-20-10 14:51:45 PDT)
  14. Bionic Chicken

    Meter swinging backwards on Cobra 29 ltd

    Has the meter worked properly since you have owned the radio? With the meter deflecting to the left on key up I wonder if the wires to it have been reversed at some time like someone else suggested. Of course the lower the noise level on receive, the higher the meter would be showing to the...
  15. Bionic Chicken

    Meter swinging backwards on Cobra 29 ltd

    Just to ask a question: The switch on the left is all the way up to the S/RF position isn't it? Not meaning to insult you by asking.
  16. Bionic Chicken

    unknown mobile CB antenna

    One thing for sure is that the StarGun antenna was the first antenna that was produced modular. Long before everyone started to copy the manner in which Troy was assembling them. Troy started making them in the late '60s to early '70s, in a time when 108" whips were the standard. Yes, 108"...
  17. Bionic Chicken

    Grant export

    You will have to have a signal generator and freq counter to do the alignment. You really can't do it without them. That may be why you don't have any receive and the xmit went away. You can get by on some other radios without them but on this one you really can't. Hopefully you didn't try...
  18. Bionic Chicken

    Grant export

    Does the radio work on SSB? One thing about the radio is that the low, mid, high is not power settings but frequencies. The low is 40 channels below the regular 40, mid is the regular 40 CB channels, and the high setting is 40 channels above channel 40. Do you have a wattmeter? You need to...
  19. Bionic Chicken

    GAMMA MATCH LOCATION

    I will tell the folks down here that have done extensive testing with the same antenna and the only changes they have made were changing the position of the gamma. They are the ones that did it and I have witnessed the effect first hand but like I said have never done it myself. I like to have...