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Hi Gary:

Hope to see you at AWA and have a beer with you and Mike Raide HI HI.  More to the point, is the Millen Amp. coil same as or similar to the BC-610 coils???   I have a bunch of the latter made by B & W.  They have a rotating link inside the coil instead of the swing link.  I know I have 40 M coils and I think I have 80 and maybe higher.  I could bring one to AWA if you are interested.

Also do you you have any interest in the 92200 Tenna Tuna?  Could bring that as well.

C U on AM

Tim

-------------- Original message from Gary Carter <gcarter01 at triad.rr.com>: -------------- 


> Don, 
> 
> Sounds like a great hamfest, and congrats on picking up the coils! I'm 
> also glad you picked up that amp from Bob. I hope to hear you on soon 
> with the big Millen station. I'm good to go coil-wise here with a set 
> for 80, 40, 20 and 10 meters (all full Millen coil sets except for 80). 
> 
> I meant to get started on my amp setup this past winter, but between 
> work and dozens of other projects I just didn't get to it. Unfortunately 
> it's going to have to take a back seat a little longer as another 
> project is occupying the bench. I wasn't planning on putting my 1930s 
> station together for another year or two but I've had to move the 
> schedule up. This December the Forsyth Amateur Radio Club in 
> Winston-Salem, NC is celebrating their 75th anniversary with a special 
> event station. There will be a mod rig for sideband and one of the club 
> members is bringing in his Viking II transmitter and Hammarlund receiver 
> for the '50s AM station. I'm planning on providing the '30s CW station 
> with that National NC-101X receiver I got last year at the AWA 
> conference and I'm planning on building a 50 watt transmitter out of the 
> November 1938 issue of QST that uses a pair of 6L6s driving a single 
> 809. I'm starting on the NC-101X this week and have already received 
> valueble email support on it from Bill Fizette, Jim Hanlon and Greg Gore. 
> 
> When I do finally get around to getting my Millen 90881 amp up and 
> running I plan on following your line of thinking and have the 90801 
> drive the amp. Like you, I want to be able to switch it in and out when 
> I like. 
> 
> Looks like we may have another Millen station on AM in the near future 
> since John, K5MO finally managed to acquire a 90801 transmitter and is 
> now looking for one of the Millen HV power supplies to go with it (way 
> to go John!!). Heck, at this rate there may be almost as many Millen 
> stations listed as there will be Johnson transmitters in next year's AWA 
> AM QSO Party! 
> 
> I'm still fairly active here on 40 meter AM with my 90801. Over the past 
> week or so I've been running it crystal controlled to give the Millen 
> 90711 VFO a break and also avoid introducing any more heat than 
> necessary into the basement shack, hi hi. There's nothing like running a 
> boatanchor station during the summer in hot, muggy North Carolina. 
> 
> 73 to all, Gary - WA4IAM 
> 
> 
> 
> Don Buska wrote: 
> 
> >Hey all, 
> > 
> >If your on the glowbugs reflector you might have seen Bob's (W9RAN) 
> >report on the South Milwaukee swapfest this past Saturday. I borrow a 
> >bit of the text from Bob's email (forgive me Bob): 
> > 
> >"If you're in the mood for one more vicarious hamfest, let me tell you 
> >about the South Milwaukee 'fest at Oak Creek WI. It's a Saturday 
> >affair, which mandates the traditional Wisconsin fish fry the night 
> >before, as those like me who don't live in town learned long ago if you 
> >aren't there at the crack of dawn (this year about 5:15AM) you'll miss 
> >the bargains. (Like the small Johnson Matchbox (missing SWR pickup 
> >unit) for $15)." 
> > 
> >"On the other hand I'm sure there would have been many takers for the 
> >Millen 90902 o'scope I found for $25, these are seldom seen and well, 
> >anything Millen goes quickly." 
> > 
> >It's always great to see fellow JMS'ers grab the Millen finds. Having 
> >just recently purchased a 90881 amplifier from another JMS Bob (W0YVA) I 
> >was in need of some of the required items to complete the unit. On my 
> >list were two 812A tubes and the high power plugin coils. I was able to 
> >obtain probably the only two 812A's at the fest. From two different 
> >sources. However by 11AM and I had pretty much given up finding the 
> >500W coils for the 90881. As I was also selling, I wasn't able to 
> >travel the rows-and-rows of cars as many times as I'd normally do. So 
> >after packing up my unsold items, actually sold most of the stuff I'd 
> >brought, I made my last round. I came across a nice looking Ten-Tec 
> >Argonaut 509 transceiver with original box. That was interesting, but 
> >since I already had two 509's at home I didn't ask the price (probably 
> >should have). However, in another Ten-Tec box was a Argonaut matching 
> >210 power supply and a pretty rare Ten-Tec Signalizer S-30 (Audio CW 
> >Filter/AMP/Speaker). I bought those as I had no matching accessories 
> >for my current 509's. I probably should have asked how much the 509 was 
> >too, considering the great price I got on the other items. The 
> >following day the wife and I went to an antique fleamarket at Graylake 
> >IL and I found one of those neat little Electro-Voice mics that were 
> >identical to the Ten-Tec 214's. Cost me $5 and it was the only piece of 
> >radio equipment worth buying at Grayslake. If you've been following the 
> >ham news lately you'd have seen that one of the Ten-Tec founders Albert 
> >R. Kahn recently past away. Al was also a co-founder of Electro-Voice. 
> >Thus the relabeled EV mics were found on early Ten-Tec stuff. 
> > 
> >Anyhoot, back to Millen! After taking the Ten-Tec stuff back to the van 
> >and continuing on my last swipe of the fest I came across a box of B&W 
> >high power coils in a box under a table. The strange thing is this 
> >seller was in the row of cars right behind me all day. The high power 
> >B&W coils are direct replacements for the Millen 500W jobs. The box had 
> >an 80M, 40M and 20M coil each with matching swing links. Just what I 
> >was looking for! The seller had $5 each on the box, but considering 
> >people were already packing up, the fest is going strong at 6AM, my 
> >offer of $5 for the box was accepted. So now I have all the inside 
> >parts needed to get the 90881 running. I have enough HV parts in the 
> >basement to build the required power supply. 
> > 
> >A question to those of you who have 90881 amps. Are you going to run it 
> >as class B or AB driven by the Millen transmitter (modulated) or will 
> >you be modulating it under class C? W0YVA provided me with a manual for 
> >the 90881 and I see they have a page dedicated to using the 90831 
> >modulator to directly modulate the 90881 to around 40-50% modulation. 
> >My initial plan was to use the amp driven by the 90801 in class AB or B. 
> >The 90831 would modulate the transmitter as in my current setup. I 
> >figure this way I'd easily be able to remove or insert the amp 
> >on-the-fly. Your suggestions and ideas are greatly appreciated. 
> > 
> >73 
> > 
> >Don N9OO 
> > 
> >P.S. I had the wife (W9MSC), father inlaw (N4GQQ) and mother inlaw 
> >along at the swapfest. So it was a little easier getting away from my 
> >table than if I was alone. The wife loves this fest and the inlaws were 
> >very happy to find a nice laptop computer for their camper journeys and 
> >a digital camera. Funny note on the camera. My wife's dad had 
> >misplaced the USB cable that connected their existing camera to the 
> >computer. He figured he'd find one at the fest for much less than the 
> >$30+ at the local stores. Well he ended up getting the exact same 
> >camera, with a docking station, which he didn't have before, and all 
> >needed cables for $50. So all my team went away happy from this fest. 
> > 
> >P.S.S. Another bit of W9RAN orignal message that I agree with 100% 
> >after attending this fest for the past 30 years: "Oak Creek has a pretty 
> >high ratio of actual radio stuff to other stuff, but always seems to 
> >have a lot of variety, with everything from truckloads of military gear 
> >to complete broadcast studios turning up in years past. This years 
> >theme seems to have been "test equipment" with a wide range of service 
> >grade stuff and some nicer pro gear as well." 
> > 
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