[Boatanchors] WRL Globe Scout 65 P/T

[Grant Youngman]

A bit pricey at $215.00 plus tax, tag, and title, but Dahl/Hammond also has a replacement for the 65A, which is probably the right spec …

Grant NQ5T



> On Nov 4, 2020, at 2:03 PM, JAMES HANLON <knjhanlon at msn.com> wrote:
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> Bill,
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> Sorry to hear that the Power Transformer on your Globe Scout has given up.  I don't have a direct replacement for you, but I do have a few suggestions.
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> A few years ago, the power transformer in my Viking Adventurer went out, probably quite similar to the tranny in your Globe Scout.  I had what we used to call in ancient times a Television Set Replacement Transformer in my stash.  It had several filament windings and a husky high voltage secondary.  I've forgotten right now whether I used the same 5U4 full wave rectifier that came with the Adventurer or whether I rigged up another rectifier with silicon diodes, but I was able to transplant the TV transformer into the Adventurer and get appropriate filament and HV power going to it once more.  I just looked, and I don't have another such transformer in stock, but it's very likely that someone else on this BA Reflector could come up with one.
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> Second suggestion:  visit the Fair Radio Sales web page and look in their catalog under High Voltage Transformers.  They list a wide variety of transformers, many of them new from Hammond, that should be sufficient to get your Globe Scout going again.  Just one I see on their list is their part number 270HX,  550 VCT, 230 ma; 5 vct, 3 amp; 6.3 vct, 6 amp; 115 volt primary.  Its cost is $101.60, not cheap but it sure would get the Globe Scout back to doing its thing.
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> Third suggestion:  if you have another transmitter in your collection with about the same power requirements as your Globe Scout, for example a Globe Chief or an Adventurer, you could probably borrow high voltage and maybe also filament voltage from that rig to power your Scout.  Many of the older transmitters had an accessory socket that allowed you to do just that.  You wouldn't have to disable the donor rig, just use its internal HV supply to power either your Scout or the donor itself.  I've borrowed the 500 volt supply in my Globe Chief to run my BK MOPA just this way.
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