[ICOM] Icom Power

[Roger Borowski]

Bill, Where can you still buy new Astron RS70M supplies? I am interested in
acquiring one but it seems that all the dealers I inquired told me all they
have is the new Astron switching supplies. Thanks for your reply in advance.
73, Rog-K9RB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Diamond" <wjdiamond at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Icom at Mailman. Qth. Net" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 1:32 AM
Subject: [ICOM] Icom Power


> Hi Folks,
>
> As most of you know, I have always been a supporter of the Icom PS 125
> switching power supplies and I had a ton of them.
>
> Since I am in the middle of a total station reconfiguration, I bought a
used
> Astron RS70A to power a few Icom's and some brand Y & K.
>
> I got 6 new PS 125's with the new gear and when I started checking out the
> new stuff.  I had birdies and RF hash from the PS all over the bands.
Also
> the fan noise was very bad.
>
> I pulled one of my old spare PS 125's out and hooked it to the PRO II and
it
> was quite..  I put one of the new ones back on and the rig was noisy.
>
> The only difference between the supplies is the old ones came straight
from
> Japan and had a 2 wire AC cord... Of course the US versions had the 3 wire
> cords..  Changing the cords did not make a difference in the noise level.
>
> So, I have another brand new Astron RS 70M on the way and I am going to
run
> all the gear from 2 of the 70 amp supplies.  These big supplies are really
> quite.
>
>       William J. Diamond
>        Rogers, Arkansas
>
>     Ham Radio Operator WR0T
>
>    Please Visit My Radio Site
>         wjdiamond.com
>
>
>
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