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Post by Night Ranger on Oct 25, 2014 18:01:36 GMT -5
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Post by Night Ranger on Oct 26, 2014 22:10:47 GMT -5
Ebay seller CrippleCreek went up on his price by a $100. Now he wants $850.00 for it! You can buy a brand new Ameritron AL-811h for that. Good grief. Night Ranger |
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Post by ab5ni on Oct 26, 2014 23:22:03 GMT -5
Ebay seller CrippleCreek went up on his price by a $100. Now he wants $850.00 for it! You can buy a brand new Ameritron AL-811h for that. Good grief. Night Ranger Send him a message and tell him he must live in Colorado or Washington and has been smoking a new hybrid stomp-butt weed or something  . 73, Randy AB5NI |
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Post by Sandbagger on Oct 27, 2014 7:01:56 GMT -5
Ebay seller CrippleCreek went up on his price by a $100. Now he wants $850.00 for it! You can buy a brand new Ameritron AL-811h for that. Good grief. Night Ranger I wonder if he's related to the nutburger who was selling that Gonset amp for $90K a while back......  |
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Post by Night Ranger on Oct 27, 2014 7:40:45 GMT -5
Ebay seller CrippleCreek went up on his price by a $100. Now he wants $850.00 for it! You can buy a brand new Ameritron AL-811h for that. Good grief. Night Ranger Send him a message and tell him he must live in Colorado or Washington and has been smoking a new hybrid stomp-butt weed or something . 73, Randy AB5NI I see the D&A PDX-400 sold for $199.95 including shipping. That was a pretty good deal if you are looking for an 800 watt sweep tube CB amp. It will dead key 400 watts easy with 4 watts drive. Of course if you have a Dosy Test Center hooked up after it then it will do 2000 watts! ; ) Night Ranger |
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Post by ab5ni on Oct 27, 2014 9:48:44 GMT -5
Send him a message and tell him he must live in Colorado or Washington and has been smoking a new hybrid stomp-butt weed or something . 73, Randy AB5NI I see the D&A PDX-400 sold for $199.95 including shipping. That was a pretty good deal if you are looking for an 800 watt sweep tube CB amp. It will dead key 400 watts easy with 4 watts drive. Of course if you have a Dosy Test Center hooked up after it then it will do 2000 watts! ; ) Night Ranger Back in the day, when sweep tubes were still being used, I could understand the purchase of these amps. Dentron must have had a pretty good run with the GLA-1000, although you did have to work the stock amp over a bit to really get it to play decently. Main problem was that they'd arc over to the case and either take out the plate choke or the transformer. They eventually solved that issue, but I used to yank the guts out and put it in my own homebrew case and replace the doorknob cap for friends. Today, our version of sweep-tube amplification would be cheap power MOSFET's. Man, if I was an unscrupulous, greedy piece of crap that some folks are, what I'd do is make a peak-reading DOSY meter that also contained a crap pile of bright LED's and some type of audio chip that would say Homer Simpson's "DOH!" when it pegged the meter. It would be called the "DOSY DOH!" of course . The really hilarious thing would be that a lot of those folks would attribute better accuracy because of the additional "circuitry." . MSRP would be $500.00, of course! UPDATE: Doing some brainstorming on this new "meter," and I came up with the "Audio Detection" mode, which would be user switchable, in or out. When it was on, it would play a constant tone, and at low power it would be low in volume. As power increased, the tone would increase in volume, and then it would play Homer's "DOH!" when the meter pegged, which would be almost always on each scale . The literature would say that audio mode allows you to monitor power output without having to actually look at the thing, and that would be really, really helpful for testing your Po while driving . In SWR mode, the tone would be louder with higher levels of SWR, and it would drop the volume of the tone the closer you get to a 1:1 reading. The really funny thing here is that it might actually be very helpful to blind operators . Oh, I forgot something...It would also flash all the bright LED's like mad when Homer said DOH! . I guess you could also add a pulser to the thing that would allow you to tune up your linear amplifier correctly. The more I think about this, the more I think an "audio only" meter might actually be useful. . 73, Randy AB5NI |
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Post by Night Ranger on Oct 27, 2014 10:16:03 GMT -5
I see the D&A PDX-400 sold for $199.95 including shipping. That was a pretty good deal if you are looking for an 800 watt sweep tube CB amp. It will dead key 400 watts easy with 4 watts drive. Of course if you have a Dosy Test Center hooked up after it then it will do 2000 watts! ; ) Night Ranger Back in the day, when sweep tubes were still being used, I could understand the purchase of these amps. Dentron must have had a pretty good run with the GLA-1000, although you did have to work the stock amp over a bit to really get it to play decently. Main problem was that they'd arc over to the case and either take out the plate choke or the transformer. They eventually solved that issue, but I used to yank the guts out and put it in my own homebrew case and replace the doorknob cap for friends. Today, our version of sweep-tube amplification would be cheap power MOSFET's. Man, if I was an unscrupulous, greedy piece of crap that some folks are, what I'd do is make a peak-reading DOSY meter that also contained a crap pile of bright LED's and some type of audio chip that would say Homer Simpson's "DOH!" when it pegged the meter. It would be called the "DOSY DOH!" of course . The really hilarious thing would be that a lot of those folks would attribute better accuracy because of the additional "circuitry." . MSRP would be $500.00, of course! 73, Randy AB5NI While you were at it you could put in a "modulation test" button, and when they pushed it a short audio recording would play and say; "auuuuuddddiiiioooooo....auuuuudddiiiioooooo...modj...modj.......sssssshhhhhhhheeeeeeewwwwww.......te.te.te.te.te.te.te.te.test!" I've been tempted to create a YouTube video showing a collection of Dosy Meters and use the following song as the sound track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tigVYfHVmQNight Ranger |
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Post by ab5ni on Oct 27, 2014 10:31:20 GMT -5
Back in the day, when sweep tubes were still being used, I could understand the purchase of these amps. Dentron must have had a pretty good run with the GLA-1000, although you did have to work the stock amp over a bit to really get it to play decently. Main problem was that they'd arc over to the case and either take out the plate choke or the transformer. They eventually solved that issue, but I used to yank the guts out and put it in my own homebrew case and replace the doorknob cap for friends. Today, our version of sweep-tube amplification would be cheap power MOSFET's. Man, if I was an unscrupulous, greedy piece of crap that some folks are, what I'd do is make a peak-reading DOSY meter that also contained a crap pile of bright LED's and some type of audio chip that would say Homer Simpson's "DOH!" when it pegged the meter. It would be called the "DOSY DOH!" of course . The really hilarious thing would be that a lot of those folks would attribute better accuracy because of the additional "circuitry." . MSRP would be $500.00, of course! 73, Randy AB5NI While you were at it you could put in a "modulation test" button, and when they pushed it a short audio recording would play and say; "auuuuuddddiiiioooooo....auuuuudddiiiioooooo...modj...modj.......sssssshhhhhhhheeeeeeewwwwww.......te.te.te.te.te.te.te.te.test!" I've been tempted to create a YouTube video showing a collection of Dosy Meters and use the following song as the sound track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tigVYfHVmQNight Ranger Dude, that is an AWESOME addition!! . I updated my original post...check that out . Also, what we need to do is form the "Auuuudiiiooo Meter" company, pool our resources, and use the profits for DXpeditions to Oahu, Southern France, and Monaco . Oh, and we'll also attend all CES and Maker faires in Vegas, of course! 73, Randy AB5NI |
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Post by ab5ni on Oct 27, 2014 10:37:59 GMT -5
NR -- you HAVE to make that video! OTOH, the more you fill people in on what kind of POS that thing is, the less likely we'll be able to sell them our "NEW AND IMPROVED!!!" DOSY meter . 73, Randy AB5NI |
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Post by Sandbagger on Oct 27, 2014 12:32:08 GMT -5
Send him a message and tell him he must live in Colorado or Washington and has been smoking a new hybrid stomp-butt weed or something . 73, Randy AB5NI I see the D&A PDX-400 sold for $199.95 including shipping. That was a pretty good deal if you are looking for an 800 watt sweep tube CB amp. It will dead key 400 watts easy with 4 watts drive. Of course if you have a Dosy Test Center hooked up after it then it will do 2000 watts! ; ) Night Ranger That's 800 watts PEAK, which means a dead key of no more than 200 watts for proper modulation headroom. And it's full of 6LQ6 tubes which have gotten ridiculously expensive. A conversion to 31LQ6's is easy when you have multiples of 4 tubes. But this one used either 9 or 10 depending on which version you have. |
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Post by Sandbagger on Oct 27, 2014 12:37:00 GMT -5
I see the D&A PDX-400 sold for $199.95 including shipping. That was a pretty good deal if you are looking for an 800 watt sweep tube CB amp. It will dead key 400 watts easy with 4 watts drive. Of course if you have a Dosy Test Center hooked up after it then it will do 2000 watts! ; ) Night Ranger Back in the day, when sweep tubes were still being used, I could understand the purchase of these amps. Dentron must have had a pretty good run with the GLA-1000, although you did have to work the stock amp over a bit to really get it to play decently. Main problem was that they'd arc over to the case and either take out the plate choke or the transformer. They eventually solved that issue, but I used to yank the guts out and put it in my own homebrew case and replace the doorknob cap for friends. Today, our version of sweep-tube amplification would be cheap power MOSFET's. Man, if I was an unscrupulous, greedy piece of crap that some folks are, what I'd do is make a peak-reading DOSY meter that also contained a crap pile of bright LED's and some type of audio chip that would say Homer Simpson's "DOH!" when it pegged the meter. It would be called the "DOSY DOH!" of course . The really hilarious thing would be that a lot of those folks would attribute better accuracy because of the additional "circuitry." . MSRP would be $500.00, of course! UPDATE: Doing some brainstorming on this new "meter," and I came up with the "Audio Detection" mode, which would be user switchable, in or out. When it was on, it would play a constant tone, and at low power it would be low in volume. As power increased, the tone would increase in volume, and then it would play Homer's "DOH!" when the meter pegged, which would be almost always on each scale . The literature would say that audio mode allows you to monitor power output without having to actually look at the thing, and that would be really, really helpful for testing your Po while driving . In SWR mode, the tone would be louder with higher levels of SWR, and it would drop the volume of the tone the closer you get to a 1:1 reading. The really funny thing here is that it might actually be very helpful to blind operators . Oh, I forgot something...It would also flash all the bright LED's like mad when Homer said DOH! . I guess you could also add a pulser to the thing that would allow you to tune up your linear amplifier correctly. The more I think about this, the more I think an "audio only" meter might actually be useful. . The "Dosy DOH!"...... ROTFL That also accurately describes some of the people who swear by those crappy meters.  |
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Post by Night Ranger on Oct 27, 2014 12:54:02 GMT -5
Back in the day, when sweep tubes were still being used, I could understand the purchase of these amps. Dentron must have had a pretty good run with the GLA-1000, although you did have to work the stock amp over a bit to really get it to play decently. Main problem was that they'd arc over to the case and either take out the plate choke or the transformer. They eventually solved that issue, but I used to yank the guts out and put it in my own homebrew case and replace the doorknob cap for friends. Today, our version of sweep-tube amplification would be cheap power MOSFET's. Man, if I was an unscrupulous, greedy piece of crap that some folks are, what I'd do is make a peak-reading DOSY meter that also contained a crap pile of bright LED's and some type of audio chip that would say Homer Simpson's "DOH!" when it pegged the meter. It would be called the "DOSY DOH!" of course . The really hilarious thing would be that a lot of those folks would attribute better accuracy because of the additional "circuitry." . MSRP would be $500.00, of course! UPDATE: Doing some brainstorming on this new "meter," and I came up with the "Audio Detection" mode, which would be user switchable, in or out. When it was on, it would play a constant tone, and at low power it would be low in volume. As power increased, the tone would increase in volume, and then it would play Homer's "DOH!" when the meter pegged, which would be almost always on each scale . The literature would say that audio mode allows you to monitor power output without having to actually look at the thing, and that would be really, really helpful for testing your Po while driving . In SWR mode, the tone would be louder with higher levels of SWR, and it would drop the volume of the tone the closer you get to a 1:1 reading. The really funny thing here is that it might actually be very helpful to blind operators . Oh, I forgot something...It would also flash all the bright LED's like mad when Homer said DOH! . I guess you could also add a pulser to the thing that would allow you to tune up your linear amplifier correctly. The more I think about this, the more I think an "audio only" meter might actually be useful. . The "Dosy DOH!"...... ROTFL That also accurately describes some of the people who swear by those crappy meters. The slogan could be "Your amp puts out more with a Dosy Doh Watt Meter!" Night Ranger |
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Post by ab5ni on Oct 27, 2014 15:26:36 GMT -5
Sandbagger wrote: LMAO, SB! It most definitely describes them very, very well . I don't know how you guys pronounce "DOSY," but I pronounce it like the square dancing move "DOSIE DOH!", so I guess we better call the thing the "DOSIE DOH!" Our logo can be two electrons holding hands and dancing, shaped like the wide-grin smiley I use on this site, with the male electron wearing a cowboy hat and a pair of cowboy boots, and the female electron wearing a "blue and white, checkered" blouse and skirt. They'd both have bubble captions, with the male's being "MAXIMUM RF POWAH!", and the female's would be "I'VE GOT THE POWAH!" When u turn the thing on, it plays a clip from Chaka Khan's "I've got the power!" disco song . The song clip would be when she's singing "I've got the power," of course . 73, Randy AB5NI |
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Post by Sandbagger on Oct 27, 2014 15:45:01 GMT -5
Sandbagger wrote: LMAO, SB! It most definitely describes them very, very well . I don't know how you guys pronounce "DOSY," but I pronounce it like the square dancing move "DOSIE DOH!", so I guess we better call the thing the "DOSIE DOH!" Our logo can be two electrons holding hands and dancing, shaped like the wide-grin smiley I use on this site, with the male electron wearing a cowboy hat and a pair of cowboy boots, and the female electron wearing a "blue and white, checkered" blouse and skirt. They'd both have bubble captions, with the male's being "MAXIMUM RF POWAH!", and the female's would be "I'VE GOT THE POWAH!" When u turn the thing on, it plays a clip from Chaka Khan's "I've got the power!" disco song . The song clip would be when she's singing "I've got the power," of course . Yea, we're not quite in a foreign country up here. "Dosy" is as "Dosie" does. Although there are some who pronounce it "Dozy". But no matter how you pronounce it, it's still the most misleading measurement device out there. |
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Post by Sandbagger on Oct 27, 2014 15:47:19 GMT -5
The "Dosy DOH!"...... ROTFL That also accurately describes some of the people who swear by those crappy meters. The slogan could be "Your amp puts out more with a Dosy Doh Watt Meter!" The "Dosy-DOH!", the preferred instrument of the Zero-Five Institute for Technical Excellence......  |
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Post by ab5ni on Oct 27, 2014 15:54:29 GMT -5
Night Ranger wrote: Of course that would be the slogan! . I can see it now: pimping out with all the really, really good looking chicks at the CES booths at the afterhours parties; rubbing elbows with the super elite in Monaco and Southern France, drinking expensive champagne and munchin on beluga caviar. David Gilmour playin at our CES afterhour party. Two folks dressed up like the square dancing electrons, walking up to folks and saying "DOH!", interrupting their conversations. Folks pointing at us and whispering, "That's the "DOSIE DOH!" moguls over there. God -- I'd love to have their kind of money!" . I see it happening all in my head, for sure! 73, Randy AB5NI |
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Post by ab5ni on Oct 27, 2014 16:01:34 GMT -5
The slogan could be "Your amp puts out more with a Dosy Doh Watt Meter!" The "Dosy-DOH!", the preferred instrument of the Zero-Five Institute for Technical Excellence...... ROTFLMAO! We'll send one to your buddy Gene for alpha & beta testing, for sure! . 73, Randy AB5NI |
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Post by ab5ni on Oct 27, 2014 16:04:57 GMT -5
Sandbagger wrote: LMAO, SB! It most definitely describes them very, very well . I don't know how you guys pronounce "DOSY," but I pronounce it like the square dancing move "DOSIE DOH!", so I guess we better call the thing the "DOSIE DOH!" Our logo can be two electrons holding hands and dancing, shaped like the wide-grin smiley I use on this site, with the male electron wearing a cowboy hat and a pair of cowboy boots, and the female electron wearing a "blue and white, checkered" blouse and skirt. They'd both have bubble captions, with the male's being "MAXIMUM RF POWAH!", and the female's would be "I'VE GOT THE POWAH!" When u turn the thing on, it plays a clip from Chaka Khan's "I've got the power!" disco song . The song clip would be when she's singing "I've got the power," of course . Yea, we're not quite in a foreign country up here. "Dosy" is as "Dosie" does. Although there are some who pronounce it "Dozy". But no matter how you pronounce it, it's still the most misleading measurement device out there. "Dosy is as Dosie does." LMAO! Maybe we could also hire Tom Hanks for our CES afterhour party and just have him walk around and mumble that to folks . 73, Randy AB5NI |
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Post by ab5ni on Oct 27, 2014 16:19:23 GMT -5
Back in the day, when sweep tubes were still being used, I could understand the purchase of these amps. Dentron must have had a pretty good run with the GLA-1000, although you did have to work the stock amp over a bit to really get it to play decently. Main problem was that they'd arc over to the case and either take out the plate choke or the transformer. They eventually solved that issue, but I used to yank the guts out and put it in my own homebrew case and replace the doorknob cap for friends. Today, our version of sweep-tube amplification would be cheap power MOSFET's. Man, if I was an unscrupulous, greedy piece of crap that some folks are, what I'd do is make a peak-reading DOSY meter that also contained a crap pile of bright LED's and some type of audio chip that would say Homer Simpson's "DOH!" when it pegged the meter. It would be called the "DOSY DOH!" of course . The really hilarious thing would be that a lot of those folks would attribute better accuracy because of the additional "circuitry." . MSRP would be $500.00, of course! 73, Randy AB5NI While you were at it you could put in a "modulation test" button, and when they pushed it a short audio recording would play and say; "auuuuuddddiiiioooooo....auuuuudddiiiioooooo...modj...modj.......sssssshhhhhhhheeeeeeewwwwww.......te.te.te.te.te.te.te.te.test!" I've been tempted to create a YouTube video showing a collection of Dosy Meters and use the following song as the sound track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tigVYfHVmQNight Ranger Another good song would be "Tell Me Lies" by Fleetwood Mac . 73, Randy AB5NI |
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