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[Glenn NY4NC]

Hang in there huz-man! I'm heading south...on my way to join the mid-south AM strappers!! We'll give those slopbuckets a run for their money!

Yep. The one we were looking at the fest was built like the proverbial brick crap house! Hope to hear that thing on the air soon. I need some other big AM signals down here in the mid-South land to keep away the slopbuckets!

[VE7 Kilohertz]

And don't forget the Collins stuff. Their HF-80 system is awesome!! I bought a complete system (actually 2 systems) a few years back at a local auction. 1500W Amps, with seperate rack supplies. Had to use a moving dolly to move them...over 250 lbs for the supply. Amp uses a PL172(4-1500) for 1500W PEP. I  got the exciters, receivers, preselectors and 2 BIG boxes of all original manuals. Cool stuff. Unfortunatley, the HF-2050 wasn't in the lot. I have it all in 2 6' racks now and hope to get it on this winter. Over a ton of radio gear in 2 racks. now that's manley.

Cheers

Paul
VE7KHz

Sunair was the other company I was trying to think of that makes mil grade comm gear similar to Mackay, Harris and as John mentioned, Transworld. Cubic is another one, and of course Watkins Johnson although I don't think they make exciters and amps. Great stuff! It's great to see the prices on some of this gear coming down to "earthly" levels.... I think it will be a blast to get an all mil/commercial gear station on the air. Very manley, very strapping indeed! 

Nice find Glenn! The photo of of the amp boards looks very much like one John-JN and I were saw at the Gaithersburg fest. I think that one was a Harris. Do you recall JN. I do remember is was very strappping!

[w3jn]

Steve, the one we saw at G'burg was a Racal.  I probably shoulda bought that unit, it even had the power supply and was twice as strapping as my TransWorld.  It was only $200, but it was a prototype and had some hanging wires.  Still, it shouldn't be all that complicated.

[WA1GFZ]

Wow, $200 I'm bummed for a solid state amp.....
 Murphy had a pair of R2368s the last time I was there....Still kicking myself.
I want a Cubic R3150 set up when I get some spare cash. House project has me
P.B. broke for now.
I've wanted a solid state amp ever since the 1 KW brick showed up in the Mot. APP handbook. I wanted to build a big one with 9 300 watt  modules. and derate to 200 watts.

[Glenn NY4NC]

Yea, Murphy has some great stuff.. I bought an older Harris receiver from him some years back, the one with the flip switches to change freq.

Here's a Cubic 3150 exciter and receiver that just ended on E-bay... only $3k for both which is not bad considering what they must have cost new..

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cubic-CDR-3150-DSP-LF-HF-Receiver-W-Exciter_W0QQitemZ5815306848QQcategoryZ4673QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Wow, $200 I'm bummed for a solid state amp.....
 Murphy had a pair of R2368s the last time I was there....Still kicking myself.
I want a Cubic R3150 set up when I get some spare cash. House project has me
P.B. broke for now.
I've wanted a solid state amp ever since the 1 KW brick showed up in the Mot. APP handbook. I wanted to build a big one with 9 300 watt  modules. and derate to 200 watts.

[WA1GFZ]

I saw it Glen and a tear ran down my face.
I've seen schematics of that RX and was quite impressed and couldn't see anything I would want to change.
I have an optional preselector module for that RX 2 stage very well built.

Murphy gave us the run of the place including the back stock room.
It is like going to Dayton under a roof. We spent about 3 hours checking all kinds of cool stuff. He had 3 2368s at the time. one on display and 2 in the back.