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    Post Pics of tube amps here

    Palomar 321 That is Palomar 321 that someone put a SCP sticker on. Electrically they are a Skipper 300, one (1) driving three (3) and most likely running 6LF6 or 8950 tubes.
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    Maco Alpha V5/8 Groundplane Question

    Maco Alpha V5/8 Groundplane The Maco V5/8 is feed with an LC circut. If you look close you will see that the center of the antenna is encased in a plastic sleeve. The sleeve acts as a insulator between the antenna (RF hot) and the mounting bracket with the radials (RF cold). This forms a...
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    output filtering.

    RE: output filtering Ripple in a filter is seen as reflected power to the transmitter. (SWR) The greater the amount of ripple, the greater the variation as you tune across the filters passband. The same is true for a reciever. The same variations that caused reflected power to the transmitter...
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    Palomar skipper 300

    8950 / 6KD6 drive power Just a word of caution from a former long time sweep tube user. Do NOT overdrive them. A Skipper 300 works great with about 3 watts of drive on AM, a max a 15 PEP on sideband. (your results and / or opinions may vary) Steve / K6SCA
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    palomar 200-x

    Joel, Run about a watt in and the driver tube will last a lot longer. You will get a lot of great tube audio with good foward swing. :) Merry Christmas See ya, Steve / Farm Boy / K6SCA
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    D & A Dul-Comm for Linears? Ever see this one?

    I know of a gentleman out here in Central California who back in the seventies used to run a D&A built device that combined the output of his two (2) Phantom 500's into one feedline. He also had a similar one splitting the inputs. His station consisted of a Browning Golden Eagle Mark II into a...
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    Thunderbolt 305 fan ?

    Hello, Any high output computer type box fan should work OK. I used a square box type computer fan (120 VAC) fan in my Thunderbolt 305 when i had it and it worked great. The noise was not as great as the stock fan and it seemed to move a greater amount of air. Just as a thought, you...
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    Discharge and Ground Procedure

    You got darn lucky!
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    GOLDEN FALCON TUBEMOBILE(2/6LF6 DRIVING 4/6LF6)

    ,,,, after a little further thought, i believe that the Golden Falcon 400 mobile ran 8 of the switching transistors, two banks of 4.
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    GOLDEN FALCON TUBEMOBILE(2/6LF6 DRIVING 4/6LF6)

    There are 6, two banks of 3 i believe.
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    GOLDEN FALCON TUBEMOBILE(2/6LF6 DRIVING 4/6LF6)

    A Golden Falcon 400 mobile amp (2 driving 4) has the HV switching transistors located on the bottom of the amplifier case.
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    GOLDEN FALCON TUBEMOBILE(2/6LF6 DRIVING 4/6LF6)

    The Golden Falcons were make by gentleman named Andy Anderson. They were a kick butt amp back in their day! Like all sweep tube boxs, they like a low dead key, approx 2 watts with good foward swing and lots of audio. I am going from memory here, but i seem to remember mine drew about 100 +...
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    6 meters

    Master Chief, I like your quote. How true that is! 73,
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    Yaesu 767

    A buddy of mine (N6FFS) has one and loves his.
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    cdx-781 small station

    nice setup :)
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    Kris Power Pump

    The last two Kris amplifiers that i sold on Ebay were both in very good cosmetic condition. The 200B brought $125.00 and a Mach 3 brought $150.00 on a "buy it now". Both had new HV filter caps and bleeders installed and the 6LQ6's were in good shape. The little driver tube (6JG6A) in the Mach 3...
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    What is Your Favorite Amateur Radio?

    FT-847, awesome radio.
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    Beam Ant.

    Have a look here at the Super Hawk, a very good lightweight, high performance 2 element quad. www.signalengineering.com - click here 73,
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    Diamonds or Squares (again)?

    Hey guys, Not sure why, but the folks in the know (Bill Orr, Lew McCoy, Signal Engineering, HyGain, Avanti) all use or extol the slight advanage of the quad in a diamond configuration verses a square. I would guess it has something to with the way the current is distributed along the appex...
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    Comparing my Starduster to my I-10K

    That 1 S unit in gain is equal to 6db voltage or 3db RF. That means that the I-10K show an increase as if Marconi had doubled his output power. Speaks very well for his modified Starduster.