RE: [AMRadio] Pictures of homebrew rx, new 4D32 project, other homebrew things

2004-01-24 Thread Brett Gazdzinski
John, Wow, for some reason, when I look at them on your site, they look very good, very large, and the don't fit on my laptop screen, but you can read the labels on things! Thanks for posting them for me. Brett N2DTS > > > Ok Bret your pictures or at > http://wa5bxo.shacknet.nu/N2DTS/ > > CU

RE: [AMRadio] 4D32 rig testing

2004-01-24 Thread Brett Gazdzinski
Dave, many people run them on low voltage, that is ok with me. I have been running mine on the high voltage for 15 years with no crap outs at all, not a single problem with them. The low voltage transformer frequently went because it was overloaded, and removing the vacuum rectifiers reduces the

RE: [AMRadio] 4D32 rig testing

2004-01-24 Thread Brett Gazdzinski
Don, I was in qso with Jay, n2wwl today, and we were talking about the 32v3, and the voltage it runs at, Jay runs his on the low voltage position, about 600 volts on the plates. I run mine on the 700 volt tap, 180 to 200 ma. The panel meter says 800 volts high voltage, but I put my DMM on it and w

Re: [AMRadio] 4D32 rig testing

2004-01-24 Thread David Knepper
Please excuse my ignorance among the experts but shouldn't one be careful not to push the voltage rating on the secondary of the modulation transformer when increasing the plate voltage on the RF amplifier? or on the primary winding when pushing higher voltage on the mod. tubes. On all of my 32V's

RE: [AMRadio] 4D32 rig testing

2004-01-24 Thread Donald Chester
Collins runs them at over 700 volts in class C plate modulated service (32V series). If they don't arc over, and you don't exceed the plate dissipation, what would be the problem? That's a good point. I recall an article pre-WW2 in QST which described getting high peak audio power from modu

RE: [AMRadio] Pictures of homebrew rx, new 4D32 project, other homebrew things

2004-01-24 Thread John Coleman
Ok Bret your pictures or at http://wa5bxo.shacknet.nu/N2DTS/ CUL, 73 John, WA5BXO -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Gazdzinski Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:54 AM To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Subject: [AMRadio] Pictures of homebrew r

[AMRadio] RCA TT-4 transmitting tube manual now online

2004-01-24 Thread patrick jankowiak
I am sure this is one of our favorites. I know it is one of mine, so I scanned one of them and here it is for your exquisite pleasure.. Please report any errors, (some pages are slightly crooked, but I am more concerned with omissions, bad links etc) http://208.190.133.201/rcatt4/rcatt4.html