[Milsurplus] Mystery Amplifier

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Unless I’m really confused (it would not be the first time) that amp is 
actually a Harris / RF Communications amp re-badged as Harris / Gates. 
Back when it was being designed some of them went a bit astray … they
do work quite well on the Ham bands. 

They also had a great demo of the amp and it’s companion auto-tuner. They
would toss a spool of solder over one of the lighting fixtures in the shop. Break
off the end of the solder wire. Attach one end to the tuner output and let the other
end of the solder hang in air from the light fixture. 

Next step was to key the transmitter and watch dangling end of the solder light up
and burn off. Yes this was back in the days of tin-lead solder. Today that demo
would have the lawyers screaming all over the place …

Bob

> On Nov 20, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Larry <Telegrapher at Q.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11/20/2015 8:31 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
>> When I was going to get back into ham radio way too many years ago, I had
>> one of these for about a month then sold it.
>> Wish I had kept it now I'm again considering.
>> 
>> Unless someone has been modified it (i.e. screwed it up) my memory was its
>> a quite good amp. Not to say there are
>> well done mods on anything but my experience is most are not well designed
>> or implemented.
>> 
>> Make sure it has the power supply and the interconnecting cable.
>> 
>> Also can't remember the exact weight but the PS is > 150 lbs.
>> 
>> If clean $750 does not seem at all unreasonable.
>> 
>> -pete
>> 
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:30 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> Wish he had posted a phone number though, but i know the reason they don't.  It's right down the street from me!
> 
> Larry
> W0OGH
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