The guys making these are ex-Maco employees down in Memphis, TN.
Melvin and Sneaky Pete is who I know them by. They bought out what
was left of the Maco amp parts back when Dick Orgal and myself quit
building amps when the tubes ran out around 89 or 90. Their problem
is they don't build with the quality components we used, nor really
know how to design them. Their major problems were under-sized power
supplies, very noisy blowers, and shoddy workmanship. One can see in
this one that the layout is terrible. The power supply is a mess. The
cabinets look like the ones built by another friend on mine (Mark
Davis) down in Olive Branch, Mississippi just across the state line
from Memphis. If so, this is one of their older amps since Mark quit
a few years back when his wife bacame ill (unless Marks boy built
them). Mark (now around 75-80 years old or so) used to build my
cabinets and wind my transformers. Plus, he did build some decent
amps himself. He also worked with Maco for a short while when I was
associated with them back in the early 80's. I can't tell what tubes
are in this one, but they were mostly built with 4CX250B's. These
look to be a larger tube. 10 kW though, ehhhh I highly doubt that.
Best,
Will
--- In ham_amplifiers@..., "Robert B.
Bonner" <rbonner@...> wrote:
Tony, you have to be in your rocker first to get off of it.
This is so typical of CBers.
I already told the story of the CB shop near where I lived in the
70's he
had a treddle peddle on his wattmeter under the bench. As he
"PEAKED" the
radios while whistling them up, he'd push the peddle further.
HE could peak up a basic rig to 24 watts I hear...
BOB DD
-----Original Message-----
From: ham_amplifiers@...
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On Behalf Of Tony King - W4ZT
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 7:58 PM
To: ham_amplifiers@...
Subject: [ham_amplifiers] Real Yahoo amp on Ebay...
This person is really off his/her rocker!
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73, Tony W4ZT
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