[Clegg] Hello Clegg owners.

[Peter A Markavage]

Fred:
As I indicated in the previous e-mail, and I think we either talked about
this (was it Dayton(?), on the phone(?) years ago), I don't have any info
on the Apollo conversion. It might have originated from someone who was a
member of the Pack Rats VHF club and might have even been published in
one of their newsletters  but I don't really know. The conversion
probably is not rocket science but I haven't had any time or ambition to
reverse engineer and document the change. The 8236's were nothing more
then sweep tubes. Conversion to 6JE6's, or something similar (something
that uses the same tube socket), probably wouldn't be that hard to do. 
Heck, you would probably drop in a pair of octal sockets and use 6146's
at reduced PEP.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:26:57 -0800 "Baker, Fred" <BakerF at wsdot.wa.gov>
writes:
> KA1KAQ Todd,
> I also have a prototype Comet that I would love to complete. I have 
> several 22er Mark 2's so I can get some of the mechanical parts but 
> I don't have a manual. I also have a 62T10 that someone converted to 
> a 2 meter amplifier and though I have the manual, I would love to 
> get pictures of the "guts" (especially the final circuits) to help 
> in my restoration. 
> 
> WA2CWA Pete,
> Do you have any documentation on the Apollo with the 4X150's? One of 
> my 5 Apollo's was converted and I could not find anything on it 
> though I was told there was a published article on the conversion. I 
> have also found a source for some 8236 tubes while I was in Orlando 
> this year. Vacuum Tubes Inc in Orlando 
> (http://www.vacuumtubesinc.com/) has some for a reasonable price 
> (about $50 per tube) and though they are not NOS they looked good on 
> the tester. The owner; Jim Cross; believes that they came from a 
> military acceptance test lot so probably very low hours. It is a 
> good thing Ed didn't go with the design of the prototype Apollo I 
> have. It used 3 of these hard to find tubes.  
> 
> 
>  
> 
>  Fred Baker W7SIX
> 
> Electronic Design Engineer
> 
> ITS Communications & Wireless Technology
> 
> 360-705-6926