THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!

[W2PFY]

Here's a guy running a single 4-400 at 1000 watts output and he peaks it up to 1500 watts out. Hm, I wonder if it's in class AB2?? He must be the guy I hear whistling all the way up on the ten meter band. He ends his informative dissertation by saying "that's what I'm talking about"

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK19373Ucs8&NR=1

An one more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCKLLeSkvB4&feature=related

[flintstone mop]

It would have been interesting to see the waveform of that TX. Probably square waves.
Talk about pushing the living crap out of tube.

FRED

[ke7trp]

I saw that..  That amp was a sinlge 3-500. He blows it up good in one of those videos. The tube goes blue, Then throws the breaker.  He just put the 4-400 straight in, changed the transformer.  What a mess.  That could be a nice amp if the guy did some work and learned to tune it. A single 4-400 cant really do more then 500 AM.  He is pushing that thing way way to hard... In true CBer fashion.

C

[W7SOE]

Egads.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

250 Watts would be pushing it on AM.

[ke7trp]

Your probably right..  I am thinking Class C. 

C

[K1JJ]

Funny stuff.

The guy talking on his receiver was trying to tell him the 4-400A was going backwards (on his s-meter) - which makes sense...

Of course the 4-400A owner just brushed it off and whistled a few more times in blissful ignorance....


Over the years, I've rarely met a CBer who understood the ~X4 to X5 relationship between carrier and pep. Most will believe X2, but no more. When you try to help them they think you're trying to BS them into becoming a Pissweaker.  

Yep, that's a 200W carrier, 1KW pep amp.

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HAHAHAHA   I just watched the second link as the tube turns blue, pukes and craps out! Surprise surprise!
What a dumb ass.


T

[KB2WIG]

" Yep, that's a 200W carrier, 1KW pep amp "

is them watts bird watts?

klc

[Opcom]

No them aint Bird Watts, them is Wawasee Watts. Can be the same thing if the meter has been calibrated for the specific frequency, general point on the meter scale, and the SWR is 1:1.

I love my Wawasee CATalyzer. That and the one in the video are basically a simple kind of peak reading type RF voltmeter. The CATalyzer also has a 3" CRT for modulation but it is lower profile.