"My father had a Link FM transmitter on VHF - used a pair of 2E26's in the final"
Never saw that transmitter. The ones that I had used a 2E26 to drive an 829B final for VHF high. Only put out about 30 to 40 watts but it was an easy mod. to a 5894. It would smoke then; easily put out 80 to 90 watts and plates always stayed gray. I believe that transmitter was a model 1905 and the companion receiver was a 2240. Would remove the vibrator power supplies from those receivers and build an AC power supply for it, put volume and squelch controls and a speaker in the cabinet and sell them as monitor receivers before the days of scanners. None of the Link mobiles had key locks, the two-box radios used those captive 1/4 turn fasteners on the covers and the later one piece 6000 series used spring loaded latches on the sides of the drawer. The small upright cabinet (similar to a compa-station cabinet did use key locks on the doors as did the 6-foot uprights but a different handle on the bigger cabinet. They all had 2 meters and those big "pilot" lights with the 4 watt 117 volt bulbs in them. Then there was the 2975 series UHF mobile and base station. It was rated at 15 watts but would rarely put out over about 10 watts. Used a 5894 Tripler (!!!) driving another 5894 final. Never could figure out how they got enough drive out of a double-ended driver on an odd harmonic to drive the final; probably the main reason it rarely made rated power. Sure wish I'd kept some of those old antiques, if just for the memories. Tom DGN --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Custer <kug...@...> wrote: > > skipp025 wrote: > > > > Oh yeah..? Got an Allen B. Dumont, (Fred) Link key in that collection? > > My father had a Link FM transmitter on VHF - used a pair of 2E26's in > the final. It was paired with a receiver, but I don't recall what it > was. The receiver would get so hot it would burn up the tube sockets. > Both were in a small Link cabinet, but the door wasn't lockable, as I > remember. > > We did have a small/unstable DuMont oscilloscope - it sure wasn't a > Tektronix. > > Kevin >
