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« on: August 12, 2006, 11:27:15 AM »

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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2006, 11:54:09 AM »

Next to the HLR refrigerator tuner that would be really sweet
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2006, 07:20:45 PM »

An AMer was featured in the ER mag with a refrigerator transmitter several years ago. The washing machine looks like the Vanguard TX Gates made.

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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2006, 08:55:08 PM »

I'll bet a contester could really clean up and hang the competition out to dry after with that.  Grin
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« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2006, 08:24:11 AM »

Don,
      Very very kewl!
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« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2006, 02:24:35 PM »

That's one way to spin it.
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« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2006, 04:31:34 PM »

I wonder if a faster spin cycle will produce a better signal like a spark gap rotor.
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« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2006, 04:49:29 PM »

Hello,
     Yes, it's easy to make jokes about, but we (on 11 meters,) have to hide our amps from the FCC.

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« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2006, 05:43:12 PM »

Absolutely! Those guys from Washington are bad news/
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« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2006, 07:39:57 AM »

Hello,
     Yes, it's easy to make jokes about, but we (on 11 meters,) have to hide our amps from the FCC.

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thats cause y'all ain't supposed to be haven them!! Grin Grin
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« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2006, 10:46:57 AM »

Hmmm hide a linear from the man by building it into a washing machine.
wow that should work.....maybe put a container of Tide on top for effect.
Why not use a dryer and put a real tube in it and use the blower for cooling.
put the tube in the middle and you could still dry clothes with the extra heat.

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« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2006, 11:03:52 AM »

It may be clean but not as COOL as W6RNC's old KELVINATOR KILOWATT.

I wonder what happened to that critter? Progress reports were always a good topic of conversation when Fred was on the air. I don't think it ever got on the air, but the box was a good place to store parts.

$20 to the first guy that figures out how to plate modulate a microwave and put it on 3885

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« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2006, 11:16:59 AM »

Speaking of unusual rigs, we were all talking about Steve, KL7OF's 100TH rig last night. As W2APE said, the cut-outs look like one of those Fred Flintstone cartoons when he goes through a wall.  Grin



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« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2006, 12:01:08 PM »

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$20 to the first guy that figures out how to plate modulate a microwave and put it on 3885

It wouldn't be a microwave if it was on 3885 MHz. Smiley

Those things are power oscillators powered by half wave rectified, usually very poorly filtered AC. They drift and warble around in frequency and have a nasty 60 or 120 Hz buzz. It would take some work to make one stable and clean.
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« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2006, 01:17:35 PM »

They drift and warble around in frequency and have a nasty 60 or 120 Hz buzz. It would take some work to make one stable and clean.

Sounds like the Knight T-60 I ran a a JN in the 60s

Maybe I shoudl have run that through the waher?
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« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2006, 02:25:21 PM »

Thanks for the correction Steve HUZ
We would have to call it a macrowave--they actually pronounce it that way in some parts of the country.

Those windows in the KL7OF 250th rig are great. I can visualize some other cutouts but I will forego my vision in this area for fear of starting a thread more nutty than Nugent.  ooops here we go......

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« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2006, 02:29:10 PM »

Someware recently Q St. had a speaker enclosure featuring a micro wave oven...  klc
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2006, 04:02:06 PM »

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$20 to the first guy that figures out how to plate modulate a microwave and put it on 3885

It wouldn't be a microwave if it was on 3885 MHz. Smiley

Those things are power oscillators powered by half wave rectified, usually very poorly filtered AC. They drift and warble around in frequency and have a nasty 60 or 120 Hz buzz. It would take some work to make one stable and clean.

Yeah, but if you made the magnetron the size of one of Exxon's oil storage tanks it might resonate at 3885.
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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2006, 08:10:58 PM »

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Yeah, but if you made the magnetron the size of one of Exxon's oil storage tanks it might resonate at 3885.


That would be cool. Put it in another larger tank to water cool it.
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