Anyone remember this Clegg?

[WA1LGQ]

This Clegg 250 is now up and running at the museum station W1VCM in Windsor, CT. It might be the only working Clegg 250 in the world. Only 5 were known to be made, this one is serial number 4. It is 6M AM and CW rated at 180 Watts output on AM with a 4Cx250 x 2 811A modulator. It easily does the 180 watts. Currently it is paired with a Collins 75A4 with a Parks converter. It was donated to the museum by Gary W1PG.
Larry

[KD1SH]

And it sure sounded great on the net last night. Awesome job, Larry!

[WA1LGQ]

Thanks Bill, I was hoping you would show up on 50.4 for the net. I hope someone else will operate the 250 next week! It would be cool to have the Lisa and Tina show on the net with it.
LB

[KD1SH]

  Yes, I hope the new Clegg gets lots of air time at W1VCM! Thanks for posting the picture; I remember you showing me the rig a while back at the Museum, but I'd forgotten exactly what it looked like. Looking around on the web, most of the pictures I find are of the Clegg 62-T10, which looks very much like a different rig altogether. Given the very small production run, your 250 would seem to have been the prototype for the 62-T10.
  Interesting that Clegg rated the 250 at 180 watts out—roughly 250 watts DC in, hence the name, I assume—while they rate my Zeus at 185 watts DC in for 120-130 watts out. Plate voltage is probably higher on the 250—the Zeus runs around ~900v on the plate. Both the final PA (4X150 as originally equipped) and the 811's in the Zeus modulator are run very conservatively.
  Did Clegg ship the 250 with a 4CX250 in the final, or the 4X150 as in the Zeus?

Thanks Bill, I was hoping you would show up on 50.4 for the net. I hope someone else will operate the 250 next week! It would be cool to have Lisa and Tina show on the net with it.
LB

[Pete, WA2CWA]

How the Clegg Company came to be:
https://www.qsl.net/w8loy/genesis.htm

I seem to remember when I visited Ed's factory location in Mt. Tabor, NJ, a 62T10 and a Crystal Plexer were sitting adjacent to his workshop table in one corner of the factory. By then, the Zeus transmitter, Interceptor receiver, and the 99'er were in full production.

I don't remember much specifically about them as I was a relatively new teenage ham  and any equipment with knobs, meters, and stuff excited me. 

Over the years, I've collected a number of Clegg equipment items including: 99'er, 66'er, 22'er(AM), 22'er MKII (AM/VFO), Thor, Venus, SS Booster(Venus), Apollo, (2)Zeus, Interceptor, Interceptor B, (2)AllBanders(tube), AllBander(solid-state)

Ed and I reconnected back in late 90's via e-mail and phone to just shoot the breeze.

[WA1LGQ]

Pete you are one of the few people who have seen the Crystalplexer and 62T10 in person. All of the websites that I have found so far that reference the 62T10 don't have a correct photo. The photos are actually of the 209 Crystalplexer! And that is part of the Clegg 250. Here is a photo of the 62T10, we have 2 of them. This one was working last time I tried it, but it needs work. Sorry about the crappy photo.

[KD1SH]

Good catch, Larry. I feel sort of foolish now; after seeing the picture of your CrystalPlexer, and then the pictures on the web of what they mistakenly call the 62T10, their mistake is obvious.

Pete you are one of the few people who have seen the Crystalplexer and 62T10 in person. All of the websites that I have found so far that reference the 62T10 don't have a correct photo. The photos are actually of the 209 Crystalplexer! And that is part of the Clegg 250. Here is a photo of the 62T10, we have 2 of them. This one was working last time I tried it, but it needs work. Sorry about the crappy photo.

[WA1LGQ]

A few of the knobs are not quite correct, though they are Clegg knobs, just not quite right. We have since replaced a couple with the correct markings and close appearance  by use of a 3D printer.