Re: Bird Termaline load repair
I guess I should consider myself fortunate. I got a gallon of silicon oil from work. It is use to keep the HV electrodes cool that make ozone for our DI water system/PW500. I put it in my old Heathkit
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Mike Sawyer
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Re: Bird Termaline load repair
I have never seen a price list for the spare load resistors for Bird Loads. I presume that the prices are horrendous. When I inquired about overseas shipping of the Bird Load Silicone oil, it was
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tardivat@...
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Re: Real 8k ultra with control box on the way
Oh Man! I am looking very forward to this! I want one of these! Seems as if I am always either a day late or dollar short. Definately keep up the good work and keep the community posted. Can't wait to
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K6LPM
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Re: Alpha 87a for sale
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K6LPM
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Alpha 87a for sale
*Clean Alpha 87A Full Legal Limit + * Located in Southern California, Inland Empire. Avail. for local demonstration. Pair of Genuine USA Eimac 3cx800a7's Unlocked for 12 meter and 10 meter operation.
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K6LPM
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Re: AL-82 For Sale
if pushed hard on 80 and 160.. can and do arc over on the band switch and the wire that runs down thru the switch.? I have had to clean mine..
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Pat
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Re: AL-82 For Sale
Never heard of a problem with the band switch....there are 9 people, in a group of u, that chat every morning on 75 and they/we all have 82's. This a new 'issue' to me. In any case, never had an issue
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Joe - W7RKN
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Re: AL-82 For Sale
Best check the band switch prior to a sale, they are pretty much unobtanium at a realistic price. As far as I know you need to order direct from manufacturer of switch, they have a 5k minimum order
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Amp Guy Llc
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AL-82 For Sale
I am located in Reno, Nevada. I say this right off the bat as this amplifier I am offering for sale, is too big for me to ship, so¡¡ I have a 6 year old AL-82 legal limit amplifier to sell. I am
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Joe - W7RKN
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Re: Bird Termaline load repair
Hmm... I've attached some pix.? The one thing that doesn't fit is that the silver fitting on the wide end/front panel fits that 3/4" copper pipe perfectly; it will not fit any known (to me) dimension
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Scott Townley
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Re: Bird Termaline load repair
Hold on a sec Scott. If the resistor measures 2.7:1 out of oil it isn't going to improve when in oil. The mention of a copper center conductor makes me wonder if that was added or does it look
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Brandon DX
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Re: Bird Termaline load repair
I've been futzing with the Termaline. Inside there is about a 14" long copper 'shell' that is the 'exponentially tapered line section'.? Inside the shell (which is the coaxial shield) is a 3/4"
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Scott Townley
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Re: 12 KW CCS ON 160-15M....USING THE 3CX-6000A7..... PART 18
Protection board install. Plate and also grid overcurrent protection. Both grid and plate meters have also been re-scaled to the new values required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfyRut3DgjI
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Jim VE7RF
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Re: Adjusting Ameritron AL-82 input coils
Thanks for the help everyone. Turns out there was a coil slug in the 20m coil. I was able to adjust it and now full power out on 20m. 73; Steve NY3A
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Steve Sluz
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Re: Adjusting Ameritron AL-82 input coils
Do all the coils look the same or is the 20 meter coil different? Bob W4JFA [email protected]> wrote:
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Bob
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Re: Adjusting Ameritron AL-82 input coils
There ?are no??adjustable caps, only the slugs are adjustable. ?If you don¡¯t feel the slug someone could have ran it all the way in and if fell out of the slug. ? Sent from the all new AOL app
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Louis Parascondola
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Adjusting Ameritron AL-82 input coils
I have an older AL-82 that works fine except the input SWR is right around 2:1 on 20m and it's just high enough to cause the K3 that I am driving it with to start to foldback so that the output power
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Steve Sluz
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Re: Bird Termaline load repair
Maybe you can make a short jumper with some L or C (which ever's needed) to tune out the reactance at those UHF freqs? Bob W4JFA [email protected]> wrote:
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Bob
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Re: Bird Termaline load repair
In? lieu of a DL, what else that works is.....? 160m at high noon......and 10m at midnight. On 40m, just find some SW AM broadcast station, and tune all you want.
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Jim VE7RF
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Re: Bird Termaline load repair
I gave up the oil loads years ago. Also supposed to use a special silicone oil which is not cheap. I use air cooled loads, this one came out of the att ship to shore site in ocean gate New Jersey.
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Amp Guy Llc
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