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Title: Gates xmitter Post by: WZ1M on March 12, 2007, 07:31:24 PM Well, I went and done it. Bought a GATES BC-5P2 and now I have to bring it home. So far, total cost was $50.00, yeppers, thats right, fifty bucks. No tubes but dont really care at this point.
Gary...WZ1M ;D Title: Re: Gates xmitter Post by: WZ1M on March 13, 2007, 04:53:25 AM Its three cabinets wide. Each cabinet about 30" wide, 6-1/2' high and about 30" deep.
Gary...WZ1M Title: Re: Gates xmitter Post by: WA3VJB on March 13, 2007, 06:47:18 AM Why is this posting in the for sale/trade section?
If you're planning on keeping it, I know where there's another one as a source of documentation and technical support, maybe some spare tubes. That transmitter uses what I consider an oddball hybrid, consisting of half ceramic, half glass. Let me know if this thread should be moved to QSO or somewhere more suitable. Title: Re: Gates xmitter Post by: flintstone mop on March 13, 2007, 11:45:22 AM I'll have to agree that's a lot of box for just 375 watts legal limit. Lottsa good parts though!
Gary will be da channel master next radio season. Fred Title: Re: Gates xmitter Post by: Steve - WB3HUZ on March 13, 2007, 11:57:46 AM I think he's gonna use it as a driver.
Title: Re: Gates xmitter Post by: Bacon, WA3WDR on March 13, 2007, 12:27:37 PM An oscillator buffer. It makes the VFO more stable.
Title: Re: Gates xmitter Post by: W1ATR on March 13, 2007, 12:34:44 PM That's a whole lotta metal to be moving around.
Title: Re: Gates xmitter Post by: Steve - WB3HUZ on March 13, 2007, 12:39:30 PM For sure. You don't want mechanical vibrations and movement affecting your oscillator!
An oscillator buffer. It makes the VFO more stable. Title: Re: Gates xmitter Post by: N3DRB The Derb on March 13, 2007, 01:03:53 PM such things can be easily be avoided by using the proper sized coils fer yer TNT loop modulated rig, caw mawn.
(http://www.amwindow.org/pix/jpg/210xmtr.jpg) Dont let that carbon mike get a grip on yer lip! Title: Re: Gates xmitter Post by: The Slab Bacon on March 13, 2007, 02:32:02 PM Dont let Vortex Joe see that pix, He'll get "major wood" ;D ;D
Title: Re: Gates xmitter Post by: W2XR on March 13, 2007, 02:57:15 PM When I worked as a broadcast engineer during my college years, I worked on the Gates BC-5P2. Not one of the best sounding rigs on the air; I think the audio driver was largely to blame for that, along with an excessive amount of negative feedback wrapped around the modulator and driver in an attempt to linearize that mess. The Gates <5KW rigs always sounded the best IMHO. AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
Perhaps you can straighten out that audio driver kluge that Gates designed. The later versions of that rig used a solid state audio driver that was even worse sounding and notoriously unreliable. Hopefully, you bought the rig only for the parts and cabinet. You could build a nice rig of your own design into that thing with plenty of room to spare, if you have the real estate to house it. Good luck with your new acquisition. 73, Bruce |