[Johnson] A question from A New BA operator.

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:09:34 -0800

I'll chime in with the others, Ed. Run it at rated load using the
recommendations in the manual. These fine old rigs are built for it.
Decreasing the loading on the finals will definitely cause problems. If you
simply don't want to run that much power, get yourself a Ranger I or II,
which will crank out 40 watts+ all day when fully loaded. I run a Valiant
and several Rangers, both I and II, and run them all fully loaded per the
manual. They seem to thrive on it.
73, Jerry W5KP

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mullin, Edward J." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:40 AM
Subject: [Johnson] A question from A New BA operator.

> Hello All,
>
> I've been lurking on this mail list for a while, as I've been
> working on my Valiant.  So far I have gotten it working again, (recapping
> and replacing a couple of tubes was all it needed:)   Now I want to use it
> on the air.  (I've been testing into a dummy load during restoration). I'm
> new to BA's (and Ham operations) in general, and  I've been reading the
> manuals alot.  What I want to know is: What is the correct method for
> transmitting at less than full power. The manual is good at describing the
> tuning process, but it doesn't really cover this information.(at least I
> didn't figure out where it was.)
>
>
> 73 de KB1HYS
>
>
> > Edward Mullin
> >
> >
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