[Boatanchors] Golden Falcon Linear Amplifier Questions

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Golden Falcon Linear Amplifier

The were manufactured in Texas during the Good Buddy Craze and for some reason I
remember Austin.
As I recall the were build by some hams and it became a full time business very
quickly in about 1973.
They were extremely dirty with lots of parasitic and loved to splatter as much a
20 Kc. each side of center frequency.
The receive preamp, was more noise then reception of signal. Excellent TVI
generators and were in love with your phone lines.

They defiantly did build some 11 meter only units and made no effort to hide
that fact..
Later they built some 10 meter ONLY units.  The XXX units were still designed
for 11 meters.

They used 3 or 4 different types of sweep tubes like and lots of them, they were
not shy. The truck drivers loved them. Lots and Lots of RF output, but little
modulation. You could flatten the final Extremely Quickly if you were slow on
the tune up. Being mobile the splatter, TVI and coming through every appliance
in your neighborhood did not matter..

The power to drive then was 3 watt, but the really like about 7 to 10 watts on
AM in the SSB mode 15 to 25 watts was required.
Some of the big mobile units did really transmit at 600 to 700 dead carrier.
Later in time as the FCC was really going after the linear manufactures, dealers
and taking the fun out of broadcasting to you entire neighborhood.

The did start to build some all band liners, later in time as the CB Craze was
ending..
I really can't say when they closed their doors. I do not remember them
manufacturing any other products other then liners.
Most of there units were all medium to high power.
I recall they were 275, 375, 550 ,750 and I think the built a 1 KW and it was
mobile.
The 375 and 550 W mobiles were the most popular.

They did build some base liners, but the mobile high power was the thrust of
their market.

The basic designs were fine, but unless you want to meet everyone in the
neighborhood. You will need to install RF some filters, parasitic suppression
and clean up the layout of some components.

Gary  KG6NTN
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