Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
Yeah, that would be a lovely thing to see. Biggest I've seen here is MW AM broadcast station 6WA, on 558kHz. 100 miles East of me. It was 50kW and it was a walk in transmitter. As a young lad, I got
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Alek Petkovic
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#37073
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
You ought to look in to a BIG Continental or other US amp if you want to see quality. BIG starts at 100KW Carl
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Carl
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#37072
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
Hi Jim Thanks for those tips. I have ordered the HT57's You dont have the?? changes required for the GM3SEK triode board to use it with the YC156? I have a board set up for a 8877 but there is no
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tardivat@...
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#37071
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
Don't? use? fixed? vac? caps? for? plate? blockers.? With B+? ?on? one? side? of? the? vac? cap, it? has to? be? severely? de-rated.? ?As is,? a 15? kv? rated? vac? cap?
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Jim VE7RF
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#37070
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
Yeah. The anti corona balls on the screws on the switch wafer are something else too.
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Alek Petkovic
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#37069
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
Hi Jim I will order some HT57's from RFparts. I wont take a gamble with the Chinese copies since they similar in price. I? order 5. I cant find any other caps with RF current ratings for the higher
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tardivat@...
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#37068
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
What superb engineering by the RF? Gods R&S. Just look at that? excellent bandswitch and finger stock contacts. Their older test equipment aslo? has such displays of excellence in engineering. I
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tardivat@...
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#37067
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Re: Dielectric grease for roller inductors ?
OEP still makes variable caps and all the TX variety use that grease/goo/goop
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Carl
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#37066
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Re: Dielectric grease for roller inductors ?
Oren Elliott? no? longer makes? rollers...? just? ?air? variables +? verniers. I'm? gonna? buy? some...'conducto? lube' .? ? 75%? pure? silver...and 25%? castor oil.? ?Made for?
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Jim VE7RF
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#37065
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Re: Dielectric grease for roller inductors ?
Scroll? to? extreme? right.? ?'Grease' https://www.palstar.com/mm5/ ( https://www.palstar.com/mm5/ ) http://www.palstar.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=grease PRODUCT DETAILS Two
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Jim VE7RF
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#37064
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
Youre easily aroused
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Carl
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#37063
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
Well, 4 HT-57's will be OK for a 8877 running hard. I use 6 for a 3CX1000A7 on 2M at 1500W. No drift Carl
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Carl
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#37062
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Re: Dielectric grease for roller inductors ?
I'm guilty too.... tune my roller inductor with 10 watts or so RF. Never "fine tune" with QRO... just null with the capacitors. The noise bridge would be a much better solution. Don W4DNR Quoting
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Don Roden
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#37061
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
Hi, All- I have followed this discussion on plate blocking caps with great interest. Just wondering if anyone in the group might have a copy of old Sprague literature that might have the specs on some
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K3KY
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#37060
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Re: Dielectric grease for roller inductors ?
I've been using a Palstar AT1500CV roller inductor antenna tuner to tune my 260 feet 450 ohm ladder line fed doublet antenna with since 2002 and Palstar makes no recommendations at all in the user
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Cliff Fox (KU4GW) <cliffku4gw@...>
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#37059
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
Weight of that tuner is 900kg! https://www.ebay.de/itm/Rohde-Schwarz-Antennenanpassgerat-20KW-Type-HS-9128/ 233275498133?hash=item36504d9e95:g:2FoAAOSwpAhdGcnk 73 Peter _____ From:
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Peter Voelpel
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#37058
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
I've got wood!
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Alek Petkovic
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#37057
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Re: Dielectric grease for roller inductors ?
I seem to recall that the Harris "RF Grease" for roller inductors was just Molybedenum Disulphide which is also conductive. Besides moly greases have other attractive properties that is well suited to
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tardivat@...
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#37056
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
Rohde & Schwarz uses no other type of capacitor then mica for their atus. On the photo you see a 200pf mica by Jahre in their 20KW tuner. 73 Peter _____ From: [email protected]
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Peter Voelpel
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#37055
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Re: Plate blocking caps YC156
The? problem? with? broadcast? ?mica's (or? any? mica)? is? they? won't handle? ?any current? on? higher? freqs.? But? they are? NPO.? ?Drake used switchable mica's? in their?
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Jim VE7RF
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#37054
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