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John Franklin wrote:
Get a Collins KWM-2....................... THEY have meters and knobs..........and TUBES TOO! No thanks, the last transmitter I took care of was a 130 KW Comark UHF TV transmitter with the antenna on a 1749 foot tower and it had a 5 MW ERP from Orange City, Florida. I prefer working on high end receivers and their design problems but I had to leave the business due to health problems. This was my last project: http://www.l-3com.com/te/PDF/Microdyne/RCB-2000.pdf I worked as an engineering tech to help move it from hand built prototypes to the production floor. It sold for about $80,000 when I left Microdyne. -- ? Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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I worked in broadcasting too...........got tired of the heat from the big
jugs in the xmitter. He said he didn't like LCD...........would he prefer LEDS that consume MORE current? I always liked the Collins r-390A recvr, good box. John "Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message ... No thanks, the last transmitter I took care of was a 130 KW Comark UHF TV transmitter with the antenna on a 1749 foot tower and it had a 5 MW ERP from Orange City, Florida. I prefer working on high end receivers and their design problems but I had to leave the business due to health problems. This was my last project: http://www.l-3com.com/te/PDF/Microdyne/RCB-2000.pdf I worked as an engineering tech to help move it from hand built prototypes to the production floor. It sold for about $80,000 when I left Microdyne. -- ? Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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John Franklin wrote:
I worked in broadcasting too...........got tired of the heat from the big jugs in the xmitter. He said he didn't like LCD...........would he prefer LEDS that consume MORE current? I always liked the Collins r-390A recvr, good box. John I worked around a 5 MW ERP TV station, No heat problems working on the 130 KW Comark transmitter but it was a royal pain to flush the cooling system and refill the antifreeze every year. Truck loads of distilled bottled water in five gallon bottles because the well water at the site was so hard. We used a cleaner called Tyglos (sp) to remove any scaling from the plumbing but we had to keep it out of the three 65 KW Klystrons. We had to drain the system, disconnect the tubes and bypass them then flush the system. I bought some fiberglass duct board to put around the heat exchanger and used a "Salamander" heater to bring the system up to normal temperature so the cleaner would work. I have a National NC-183R on the bench right now to rebuild. Its a better radio than either of the Radio Shack DX-300 or DX-375 radios but I can't use it when the power lines are down after a hurricane. So, I keep the DX-375 and a Sony SRF-49 around for the hurricane season. -- ? Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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That's why my wife and I left Florida, last years 4 hurricanes were more
that too much! "Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message ... John Franklin wrote: I have a National NC-183R on the bench right now to rebuild. Its a better radio than either of the Radio Shack DX-300 or DX-375 radios but I can't use it when the power lines are down after a hurricane. So, I keep the DX-375 and a Sony SRF-49 around for the hurricane season. -- ? Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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John Franklin wrote:
That's why my wife and I left Florida, last years 4 hurricanes were more that too much! "Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message ... John Franklin wrote: I have a National NC-183R on the bench right now to rebuild. Its a better radio than either of the Radio Shack DX-300 or DX-375 radios but I can't use it when the power lines are down after a hurricane. So, I keep the DX-375 and a Sony SRF-49 around for the hurricane season. -- ? Michael A. Terrell Central Florida I'm old, sick and on disability so I'd rather take my chances than go through the stress of moving again. I'm here till I die. -- ? Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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Here, here or hear, hear (never did know the right spelling for that)
but, hear,here...I too am too old and disabled to move from this precious gulf coast, BUT, I won't have a green, or blue, or damn near red LCD on any rig/receiver in my house when I'm found dead in it. Butch said that Michael A. Terrell wrote: John Franklin wrote: That's why my wife and I left Florida, last years 4 hurricanes were more that too much! "Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message ... John Franklin wrote: I have a National NC-183R on the bench right now to rebuild. Its a better radio than either of the Radio Shack DX-300 or DX-375 radios but I can't use it when the power lines are down after a hurricane. So, I keep the DX-375 and a Sony SRF-49 around for the hurricane season. -- ? Michael A. Terrell Central Florida I'm old, sick and on disability so I'd rather take my chances than go through the stress of moving again. I'm here till I die. |
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