[AMRadio] WTB: WRL Globe King 500-C (or A)

[WILHITE, JIM]

The Johnson Desk KW was available but if memory serves me right it was more expensive.  Leo sort of did for hams what Henry Ford did for autos.  I have had a C model and have an A model currently.  I like both since I have no desire to push them beyond their capabilities

For what I paid (very little in both cases),  I get 300+ watts out, decent audio and all in a package that is reasonably sized.  I doesn't take up half of my hamshack.

73 all
Jim
de W5JPW


Brett Gazdzinski wrote:

>
> The globe king 500 is one of those transmitters where everything
> seems very marginal, and cries out for re doing.
> I was very unhappy with mine, used just the RF deck for a while,
> then took it all apart for parts.
> I gave many of the parts away to other globe king owners,
> and think I wound up giving almost all the parts away.
>
> Its just one of those rigs I could not deal with, the whole
> design was based on making it inexpensive.
>
> The power supplies needed serious help, all the iron was light,
> the mod transformer was not good, the rf deck used small
> low voltage parts, and should have used a different tube setup
> (lower impedance tubes), and what was up with putting the
> 160 meter coil under the chassis?

I hurt my back more than once moving that "light" iron around..

Was anything better available to hams at the time for a price that was
even close?

73 de W3NU


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