I have a palomar 200 it has a white face with 3 rocker switches. one switch is for power one swiych for receive on or off the other switch is for mode high or low. my question is where can i find some info on this an what kind of power will it put out

bakert wrote:
I have a palomar 200 it has a white face with 3 rocker switches. one
switch is for power one swiych for receive on or off the other switch
is for mode high or low. my question is where can i find some info on
this an what kind of power will it put out




Phone: 760-747-3343 FAX: 760-747-3346 Mail:
PO Box 462222 Escondido CA 92046 e-mail
Info@ Palomar-Engineers.com

Here is some "hep"

Palomar Electronics Corporation was a manufacturer of CB linear amplifiers
in the 1960's and 1970's that used sweep tubes (now expensive) or bipolar RF
transistors.
http://www.cbtricks.com/Amp/palomar/index.htm
These units were illegal for usage on CB (27 MHz/11 meters) ... and NOT
designed for the amateur radio service (10 meters). They sold hundreds of
thousands of these units -- most are in garages, basements or tossed in junk
with 8-track tape units.
http://www.cbtricks.com/Amp/palomar/...bile/index.htm

The company went out of business around 1980. Since that time many builders
and manufacturers in southwest USA and Mexico completely copied the earlier
Palomar design and sold these through truck stops and other CB merchants.
http://www.palomar-engineers.com/Palomar/palomar.html

If you are just starting out in Ham radio, its not a good place to start.

Here is a link to a photo of the Palomar 200 mobile:
http://www.cbtricks.com/Amp/palomar/...bile/index.htm
http://www.cbtricks.com/Amp/palomar/...tour/index.htm
John

"bakert" wrote in message
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I have a palomar 200 it has a white face with 3 rocker switches. one
switch is for power one swiych for receive on or off the other switch
is for mode high or low. my question is where can i find some info on
this an what kind of power will it put out




--
bakert

A warning about these things...

A few years ago, a local ham bought a tube CB amp from an estate sale, thinking he could use it on 10 meters. He asked me to check it out before
putting it on the air.

Being a paranoid type, even though the thing hadn't been plugged in for about two weeks, I kept my fingers away from the tubes & measured the voltage
on the plate caps before doing anything else.

**400 VOLTS**.

(I think I got as much of a shock from reading the voltmeter as I would have if I'd touched the HV circuit!)

After discharging things, I traced the wiring. And was not at all surprised to find there was NO BLEEDER. Nothing to discharge the HV after
switchoff. Obviously the filter capacitors were in good shape though!

In other words, these things are physically dangerous.

(I would imagine the signal quality wouldn't be very good either...)

--

Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN EM66

On Jan 14, 10:19*pm, bakert wrote:
I have a palomar 200 it has a white face with 3 rocker switches. one
switch is for power one swiych for receive on or off the other switch
is for mode high or low. my question is where can i find some info on
this an what kind of power will it put out

--
bakert

I'd be afraid to even connect it to the mains.

Dave Smirkenberg wrote:
On Jan 14, 10:19 pm, wrote:
I have a palomar 200 it has a white face with 3 rocker switches. one
switch is for power one swiych for receive on or off the other switch
is for mode high or low. my question is where can i find some info on
this an what kind of power will it put out

--
bakert

I'd be afraid to even connect it to the mains.

6KG6/EL509

Will the op trade the amp for some brand new "hooked on phonics" books? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
N9ZAS