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Roger beeps, TalkBack, ecko, doorbells , fake browning pings and samppled audio clips are pointless imo. It's such a waste.. On my local AM channel 9 out of ten operators use them. I don't and never will. All the operators that use them seem to be fascinated by them. Something like a...

I'm assuming you mean high in price. That sounds like an exorbitant amount of money to be paid for the work you mention in your post. Then again if he's local and you're only other option is to ship it out, it's probably worth it, I guess. After all if you don't want your radio bouncing around a...

An update on my last post regarding the fan. As I mentioned in my last post the wd40 has got the fan spinning without fail but I noticed a dropping in and out of the fans speed.. It sounds similar to a 120 volt power drop every 5 seconds.. I'm assuming that's a definet sign the fan needs to be...

Good looking out road squawker. A nice shot of WD 40 seems to have done the job. The fans been running for a bit over two hours now with an occasional key on AM and some modulation on single side band. The last two times it shut off it did so within 45 minutes and considering it's been running...

I've been using this Palomar while my phantom was being repaired, I'm ready to be put the phantom back in service, but before I do so it seems like this Palomar is or has developed a problem with the fan. Last week I noticed that the fan stopped working. The amp still keys up in both single...

I operate a Palomar 300 a with a sonar fs 2340 for AM operation, and a triple stage phantom with a Madison for ssb.with Within three week of each other both the phantom and 300 developed problems. I've been using a Palomar 500 elete 4 x 1446 base amp for the Madison on SSB, and a super star...

Power supply was indeed fried. Good call waverider. Found 1 amp diodes. Schematic called for two amp. Replaced with 3 amp. Replaced carbon composite resistors with metal flame resistant ones. Replaced all capacitors. Even though this happened, I...

Welcome. This is definitely the place to advise, and be advised. 73 s

Take two 11 meter amps built as close as possible considering ones transitorized and the other tubes, will the tube amp reproduce a higher quality audio? Both amps are being driven by the same tranciver/mic. I've heard tube amps soud better than transitorized/pill ones, and have been hearing...

It's so rare that DX continues into the AM, but it certainly did from Tuesday through Wednesday morning. Although it seems to have dropped off a bit at the time this post was written (8am), it's still coming into New Jersey. West from Chicago and Missouri south to Alabama and everywhere in...

I can purchase a nice used hf for $600. Probably less, and a choice between Yaesu, Icom or Kenwood. Any hf purchase will out perform that Robyn 10 fold. I think some eBay sellers are either out of their minds or just think they've got something special because it was their grandfather's...

I know exactly what you feel like. There are so many tinkerers and golden screwdrivers who throw that word "TEC" around. People like you and I are lucky, if you don't have the knowledge or capability of working on your own equipment like myself and are lucky enough to find a competent tec you...

Thanks again Waverider. I send everything to Mike at Mikesradiorepair and yes she absolutely does have a tube tester. There's no doubt he will find the problem and repair it. I will most likely have him rebuild the whole inside of the amp or at least everything that can be brought up to speed or...

Thanks for your reply. Can you explain what it means when a tube is shorted? I should have mentioned in my op that up until that point the amp worked flawlessly. When I say flawlessly I mean as far as output goes. I've never been using a piece of tube equipment where the tube actually just went...

Always appreciate your help and advice Waverider. As far as the tubes go amplifier always had the rated output at least rated according to dna manual. The tubes are original DNA stamp Sylvanian I believe. If you mean that the cap going in the power supply section could have caused the tubes or...

If I didn't have bad luck I'd have none at all. Two weeks ago my Palomar 300 a which I use with my AM set up (Sonar fs 2340) begin keying up only upon the second key down. I replaced it with my macaco 300 only to find half the out put of what it used to do (never been a big fan of the macro...

I normally don't envy much, but Wow! Very very mint my friend. Congratulations! I doubt very much that she popped up overnight, and probably took years and quite a bit of work to get it where it is. Once again congratulations, and great work. Enjoy the fruits of your labor.

I'm not sure if it's the audio that was made on the recording, but both those station sound absolutely horrendous. I've heard audio man and I don't recall what his audio sounded like on air, but if your video gate is representative of what he sounds like, a handle change is in order. More like...

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The only stupid questions are the ones never asked. If it can be thought of it can be made. Good luck my friend. 73