[KCDXC] Fwd: FS: Really QRO DX Set Up !!

[Mike ZooLoo]

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:42:00 -1000
From: "Jim Reid" <jimr.reid at verizon.net>
Subject: FS: Really QRO DX Set Up !!

Aloha from Kauai,

I am selling my Henry 8K System:

As for the 8K,  I have barley used it!  Sort of wish I
hadn't put nearly $15,000 into it,  the SS750,  the 3
remote preset boxes of dual precision pots to yield 24
presets,  and the custom controller unit for the
series connection of  SS750+8K and several other
accessory items all included,  see on below!  

I have all 600 or so pounds of it out here, hi,
including the two Astron RS-70M parallel power
supplies for the SS750. I use the SS750 by itself
every few days,  as the system allows for that.

All was brand new and delivered out here in the Spring
of '99.  I am including the large Bird 3 KW "Coaxial
Resistor", aka dummy load, and a Bird 43, nearly new
(S/N 277093) with 500, 2500, and 5000W slugs, external
to the built-in Bird stuff in the amp remote RF/PS
cabinet and the Controller Unit.

This system was custom built for me,  mostly by Paul
Johnson at Henry.  Also included is the Henry 10 KW
Low Pass Filter and one of Paul Schrader's XMatch(tm)
classic low bander tuners, optimized for 160, 80 and
40 meters, but will also tune most any antenna on all
the HF bands.

All these added goodies is how come I have about
$15,000 in this afterburner set-up!

Would appreciate offers for this system, which all
together is going to weigh around 700 pounds to Air
Freight to the new owner.  Henry used Lynden Air
Freight to send out here in March of 1999 from LAX. 
All equipment will be professionally and properly
packed/insured for the journey.

I would use the same air freight service Henry used to
ship out here, or whatever carrier the buyer might
specify.

I have a complete set of external/internal .jpeg
photos of the entire system, and could send them off
as email attachments to anyone requesting them.

I have Paul Johnson's hand drawn system interconnect
diagrams, and all cables and interconnections supplied
by Henry.  There are 20 feet of all cables that
connect the remote Control unit on the operating desk,
to the RF/PS pedestal which I have installed, along
with the SS750 and its' two power supplies in another
room adjacent to my "shack" room.  I also have the
operating manuals for the system elements, all to be
included in the shipment.

The Henry spec on the 8K is 5000W PEP or 2500W DC
(RTTY, etc.).  With the SS750 in series after the
transceiver to drive the 8K, only 32 watts drive from
your transceiver will cause the SS750 to drive the
8K with about 200 watts, whose output, CW, would then
approach the 5 KW!!  However,  I NEVER operated with
over 1500 showing on the Bird 43.  But how nice to
have an amp system, and entire rig set up which is
just coasting along quietly at full Amateur legal
output power!  And your signal will be CLEAN!

For the 8K to output the full spec power would require
a 50 amp, 240 volt line source,  and a separate 120
volt circuit for the two RS-70M supplies for the drive
amp.

I would hate to pass on and leave my wife wondering
what to do with all this stuff, hi!  Of course, as I
am only about 70, I could live another 30 years and
use the 8K system some more, but you never know.

Obviously, no one will pay anywhere near what I did
for the system as new and custom designed and set up, 
but I will sell all for $7500, which would include the
air freight/packing/insurance.  Or, make what you
believe is an offer which would be attractive to each
of us; perhaps you could pay for the packing/shipping,
etc.

New prices today from Henry for these items are:  8K,
$7500; SS750, $1350; 24 preset option, $1500; RS-70M
power supplies, two needed, from AES, $290 each; 10 kW
LPF, $295;  Bird 8890-300,  3000 watt dummy load, I
paid Henry $1395; Bird 43 meter, paid Henry $250,  500
watt slug was $80, the 2500 and 5000W slugs were $150
each; XMatch tuner, I paid Paul, N4XM, about $1k for
it. I do not know what Henry would charge today for
the customization of the Controller Unit to operate
both the 8K and the SS750 as a remote/series system.
Of course,  I also paid hundreds of dollars in air
freight charges!!

Anyway, all is here, works just super, but little
used.

73,
Jim Reid KH7M



	
		
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