[ICOM] Icom Power

[Roger Borowski]

Sorry for post to the reflector....I intended it to be private.
A senior moment! 73, -=Rog-K9RB=-

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Borowski" <K9RB at bellsouth.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] Icom Power


> 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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