Re: Alpha Amp Group Still Active??
Albany County Fasteners:
https://www.albanycountyfasteners.com/Phillips-Pan-Head-Machine-Screw-M4-x-7-p/1066-1010.htm
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Lowes have them for delivery!! Home Depot seems to be down here in UK
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Roy Talbert
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Ten-Tec Centurion Parts Needed
I have recently acquired a Ten-Tec Centurion model 422 that is in very nice condition, but has a blown up bandswitch and the plate tuning capacitor was arced.? I might be able to salvage the
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Omni
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Re: Alpha Amp Group Still Active??
Lowes have them for delivery!! Home Depot seems to be down here in UK this morning
Im sure some specialists would have them cheaper for mail order
When I am in the US on business I try and visit
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Fred Handscombe
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Re: Alpha Amp Group Still Active??
As in any quality-designed-and-built power amplifier, yes, there is a good-sized, large inductor from the output of the pi-network to ground to guard against exactly this kind of failure mode.
What
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Steve
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Re: Alpha Amp Group Still Active??
Actually, they read "222M"; so it was clear they were 2200 pF.
A 5 kV-rated cap is not likely to withstand 3 kV plate voltage under highly-mismatched circumstances at the legal power limit (such as
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Steve
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Re: Alpha Amp Group Still Active??
Did the caps short and put high voltage on the antenna causing the amp meter to peg? Is there a rf choke at the output connector?
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mike repinski
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Re: Alpha Amp Group Still Active??
Those oem 220M? caps are each 2200 pf.? ( 6600 pf in total for all 3 of em in parallel).
The problem with discs is..... current handling capability.? ?Upper HF will result in the highest RF
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Jim VE7RF
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Re: Alpha Amp Group Still Active??
Actually, Adrian, I'm glad I didn't buy one of those, because finding short M5 metric screws here in the back-country of the USA would have been a real challenge? 8-D
73,
Steve K0XP
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Steve
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Re: Alpha Amp Group Still Active??
I asked to join the 9500 group a week or two ago, but never heard back. I did search the 87A group's archives and have seen Glenn post there. But I've never seen any discussion of any other amp other
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Steve
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Re: Alpha Amp Group Still Active??
There is an Alpha 9500 group HERE: /g/Alpha9500
Glenn, AE0Q posts/replies there often.
73,
Alan
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Alan - W5ARM
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Re: W4ZT Amplifier Web Sites Gone
True, for that one cover page; however, the links don't go through the Wayback machine, so they don't come up with pages. One has to copy the indicated url for a link into wayback machine in order to
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Steve
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Re: W4ZT Amplifier Web Sites Gone
W4ZT.COM <http://w4zt.com/> IS GOOD.
73,
Mike Mysliwiec
KF8OD
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Mike
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Re: W4ZT Amplifier Web Sites Gone
Yes, indeed; but my point is that all of this fantastic old amplifier reference material is now on it's way gone... so anybody wishing to personally archive any of it had better get busy saving
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Steve
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Re: W4ZT Amplifier Web Sites Gone
Try the Internet Wayback Machine. There's a good chance you will find it there.
Mod-U-Lator,
Mike(y)/W3SLK
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Mike Sawyer
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Re: W4ZT Amplifier Web Sites Gone
Try with http://www.archive.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20230830230406/https://w4zt.com/
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va3dxv
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Re: W4ZT Amplifier Web Sites Gone
Unfortunately, it seems that any reference to the original W4EMT's material is gone, too? 8-(
73,
Steve K0XP
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Steve
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Re: W4ZT Amplifier Web Sites Gone
FYI¡.I met Tony King many years ago for the first time at the Shelby, NC. Hamfest. ?Toby was with a group of guys including Ron K4POZ. ?They were best of friends and worked together on converting
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Louis Parascondola
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W4ZT Amplifier Web Sites Gone
Old news to some, perhaps... I think he died some time ago; but W4ZT's amplifier web sites, mostly showing big Russian tubes such as the GS-35B but also with links to many European Russian tube sites,
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Steve
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Re: Artificial centre tap for GG 3CX1200
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 01:58 AM, Dave w6de wrote:
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Jim VE7RF
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Re: Artificial centre tap for GG 3CX1200
Thank you, Reid. I was only thinking about the RF part. I ignored the DC plate current part of the equation.
Forum readers, please excuse my oversight.
Meanwhile, I have found in my spares a NOS in
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Dave w6de
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