Re: Old Heathkit Ham Linear Tube Amplifiers .... Mods, Repairs, best Refurbishment practices ?
Gren,
One of the best online amplifier reference website is found at:
https://www.w8ji.com <https://www.w8ji.com/>
73,
Ray, W4BYG
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Ray, W4BYG
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Re: Old Heathkit Ham Linear Tube Amplifiers .... Mods, Repairs, best Refurbishment practices ?
I have *no* experience in this domain, so I am unable to offer advice. However, I have a Yaesu FT-101E and a Kenwood TS-520 in queue for functional restoration for sentimental reasons both of which
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Old Heathkit Ham Linear Tube Amplifiers .... Mods, Repairs, best Refurbishment practices ?
Watch out for failed dropping resistors for the metering circuit for the
high voltage. IIRC they are 4.7meg. Replace them with metal oxide 3W in
place of the 2W ones there. I would do that anyway even
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Sam Reaves
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Old Heathkit Ham Linear Tube Amplifiers .... Mods, Repairs, best Refurbishment practices ?
Hoping to stimulate some discussion on Old Ham Tube Linear Amps:
Are there any experienced with the various Tube Amp issues,
... such as Arcing and Band SW,? coil,? capacitor & tube and HV Xfrmr
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gren
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Re: A third hand system that actually works!
Nice idea!
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Tam HANNA
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Tam Hanna
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A third hand system that actually works!
FYI I thought this would be of sufficient interest to justify crossposting a link.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/a-3rd-hand-that-actually-works!/msg5248170/#msg5248170
Let's just say I
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Class-E Amplifier Woes
Just a moment for a few memories of my old friend Nathan..
I .Often Visited Nat at Design Automation in 1980s
He was a brilliant engineer, and teacher, with a wide range of interests, especially
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Froggie the Gremlin
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Re: Super low noise PSU for the OXCOs
I'm finally getting around to setting up an instrument I've had for a year or two and you suggest another instrument? Get real. For my use case there is no benefit.
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Super low noise PSU for the OXCOs
You might consider looking for an HP 34970A. It¡¯s basically a 34401A 6.5
digit multimeter with plug in cards. But unlike the 3457A, the different
cards do different things.
Digital I/O
RF
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David Kirkby
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Re: Super low noise PSU for the OXCOs
Thanks for the tip.
BTW are there any parts which are hard for you to get? I'd like to see if I can help.
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Super low noise PSU for the OXCOs
Serendipity. I have just found this in my inbox:
https://www.analog.com/en/products/ltm8080.html
These are advertised as "Ultralow Noise, Ultrahigh PSRR" regulators, though they are SMPS.
Check the
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Daniel Ricardo Perez LW1ECP
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Re: Super low noise PSU for the OXCOs
I've had a chance to work on this and am making a board with 3x LM317s to test along with 3x LM399s and 3x AD584JH modules. The 10th channel of the 44492A will monitor the output of the LT3045. For
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: CTI OSC5A2B02 OXCO module high precision frequency reference project
I have 20x bare OXCOs of which 10x have been tested to determine the voltage required to set to near (dF < 0.1 Hz) 10 MHz. Based on that result I bought 10x more.
The voltage varies quite a bit, but
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: CTI OSC5A2B02 OXCO module high precision frequency reference project
My experience with cheap Chinese crystal ovens that have spent their
useful live on a cell tower is: ? They have been removed from their
home with hammer and sickle (my explanation of the scars)
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Gerhard_DK4XP
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Re: CTI OSC5A2B02 OXCO module high precision frequency reference project
A quality GPSDO is good to 1e-13. I'm seeing 1e-10 over several days in a very unstable temperature environment from a single OXCO with a lab supply and loads of EMI.
I plan 4 OXCOs which will be
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: CTI OSC5A2B02 OXCO module high precision frequency reference project
[email protected]> wrote:
Reg
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0.001 ppb/year sounds unrealistic to me - by a *long* way. Looking at the
specifications of a high-end frequency counter from Keysight, with an
optional ultra high
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David Kirkby
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Re: Super low noise PSU for the OXCOs
As it happens I got an LT3045 module a few days ago, but had not yet opened the bag. I've been working on a leaky roof. And discovered I'm in *really* poor shape. 90 minutes and I'm beat.
I just
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Super low noise PSU for the OXCOs
Ignoring the progress in electronics of the last 40 years does not help.
No, they have a band gap reference and it shows in the horrible noise plots. Band gap references live on amplifying
the
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Gerhard_DK4XP
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Re: Super low noise PSU for the OXCOs
I'm familiar with the LM317 and happened to find used ones. They have a 1.25 V zener reference
which should be very stable due to aging. I'm hoping that I'll be able to pair tempcos to be zero under
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Super low noise PSU for the OXCOs
Why did you overlook the lt3045 ldo modules? There are prebuilt modules having pins that plug in like an lm317. I use the modules with batteries on my phase noise test system.
Sent: Tuesday,
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Jerry
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