[Boatanchors] Galaxy V

[Greg Roecker]

Listen for Andy, WB0SNF on Sunday afternoon on the vintage SSB net on 14.292 at 2:00 PM ET ... he has a Galaxy 2000 linear on the air on a regular basis.

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> On Sep 14, 2016, at 8:08 AM, Bry Carling <af4k at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That is interesting, Bob. I think that they sold VERY few of the Galaxy model 2000 linear amplifiers.
> 
> I doubt that there is even a single one in existence today.
> Bry AF4K
> 
>> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:28:48 -0400
>> To: W9RAN at oneradio.net; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Galaxy V
>> From: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>> 
>> 10 6F5s!   Did  they have to be   closely matched  or?
>> 
>> Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 9/12/2016 6:42:53 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
>> ranickel at comcast.net writes:
>> 
>>> On  9/12/2016 5:17 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>>> You probably have to be careful  even just tuning it up.
>> 
>> As with all sweep tube rigs, you did.  A  lot of Galaxy Vs were on the 
>> air in the late 60s when I first was licensed  in Nebraska because WRL 
>> was the nearest ham store and offered good  trade-ins for all that old AM 
>> junk ;-)   More than once I  remember guys complaining that their finals 
>> "went south" the first time  they tried tuning their new transceiver 
>> up.   But sweep tubes  were used because they were cheap - the 1967 B-A 
>> catalog shows the 6HF5 at  $1.64 each vs. $4.35 for a 6146.
>> 
>> Galaxy also made a linear amplifier,  the model 2000, that used 10 6HF5 
>> sweep tubes in parallel.  I knew a  kid in Lincoln (spoiled brat would be 
>> a fair description) who had one and  wrecked it the first time he tuned 
>> it up (which I had the dubious pleasure  of hearing on the air) by keying 
>> it down for several minutes with the  wrong band selected, as he later 
>> confessed.   But he blamed the  failure on his father for "being too 
>> cheap to by him the Collins equipment  that he wanted".    Yes, really!
>> 
>> 73, Bob  W9RAN
>> 
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