[ARC5] GO-9 Power Supply Got the Pharoh Treatment

[David Stinson]

Finally got a chance to take a closer look at the GO-9.   Both parts 
have been subjected to sacrilege by barbarians.  The HF section hasn't 
been too bady despoiled, but the power supply has been treated like 
Pharoh of old:  The outside still looks pretty good, but all its innards 
have been removed and all the earthenware jars, containing the 
transformers and wiring harnesses and relays etc. have long-since gone 
to the "tomb raiders." Someone hinted they needed the PA filament meter 
but I can't find the email.

Poor thing has met the fate of 90%+ of the hundreds of thousands of 
"milsurplus rigs:"  the ill-advised and doomed "conversion" got about 
half done, the ham lost interest (or just got lost period), he bought a 
Globe Chief and the mil-rig went on the junk heap, passing from 
"round-tuit" pile to "round-tuit" pile, estate sale to estate sale, 
never having done another lick of useful work from the time he cut the 
first wire unto today.  This is one of the fortunate few rigs that made 
it through that "gaunlet of neglect" without going to the scrap yard.

It's not all tomb-darkness, though.  An empty power supply shell is a 
perfect excuse for a 60-Hz supply.  The HF TX has also suffered from 
"Golden Screwdriver Disease,"  but not so badly.  If you can see the 
attached photos, you might recognize that PA tube is not an 803.  If the 
power to speak to those who have "joined the choir invisible" actually 
existed, I'd contact a few of these guys and ask a simple question:  
"WHY??"  Really would like to get an answer.

I have an 803 and the socket, and the kindness of one of our members 
(Thank you, Tom!) has a manual on the way.  This nonsense I can fix.  I 
know I know- I have too many projects for an old fart with a couple of 
teaspoons of sand left in his hour glass, but guys it's just too pretty 
to give-up on it.   Goes in the line-up after the BC-669 rebuild for the 
retired Navy tug-boat skipper and the SCR-274N VHF refurb.

GL OM ES 73 DE Dave AB5S



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