[Hallicrafters] SX-101 MkIII

[Mark Bell]

Well said Doug.

> Any carelessness and ... BOOM!

Don't need to be careless.  A while back I running my DX-100B on 10M AM and
when I flipped the plate switch to ON -- "Boom" !!   Sky high mod current;
I figured it was the meter shunt resistor, and sure enough, it had a nice
big black circle around it complete with a missing chunk.  Replaced it, and
"Boom" again.   Hmmmm.  Finally found that I had a VERY leaky 1625 modulator
tube, which had tested just fine the previous month!.   You never know
what'll happen when you turn on a toober, eh ?

73 Mark K3MSB



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Troglodite at aol.com>
To: <k2wh at optonline.net>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] SX-101 MkIII


> In a message dated 1/5/05 7:49:09 PM Central Standard Time,
> k2wh at optonline.net writes:
>
> > Why do I do this????????????
>
> Because It's fun, and less hazardous than skydiving, drinking, or chasing
> young women. I can't really answer for anyone except myself, but for me,
working
>  on antique electronics takes me back to a time when life was a lot less
> hectic  and a lot more fun.
>
> And running old gear on the air gives you something to DO! I often tell
> people that running an old tube transmitter is a lot like operating a
steam
> locomotive. You have to know what you are doing, be aware of many things
at the
> same time, and do a lot of adjustments - sometimes while running at full
speed.
> Any carelessness and ... BOOM! Modern gear has all these fail safe
circuits
> built into it to keep you from harming the equipment or yourself. What fun
is
> that? As Peter Sellers said in a movie, "I never knew that mere
electricity
> could be so envigorating."
>
> 73,
>
> Doug Moore KB9TMY
>
>
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