[Milsurplus] GO-9 Power Supply Got the Pharoh Treatment

[B. Smith]

   Sounds like a good candidate for a AC supply. Info on my GO-9 project 
can be found at:
http://k4che.com/GO-9%20Transmitter/Index/GO-9%20Index.htm

k4che

On 8/13/2019 8:44 AM, David Stinson wrote:
>
> Finally got a chance to take a closer look at the GO-9.   Both parts 
> have been subjected to sacrilege by barbarians.  The HF section hasn't 
> been too bady despoiled, but the power supply has been treated like 
> Pharoh of old:  The outside still looks pretty good, but all its 
> innards have been removed and all the earthenware jars, containing the 
> transformers and wiring harnesses and relays etc. have long-since gone 
> to the "tomb raiders."  Someone hinted they needed the PA filament 
> meter but I can't find the email.
>
> Poor thing has met the fate of 90%+ of the hundreds of thousands of 
> "milsurplus rigs:"  the ill-advised and doomed "conversion" got about 
> half done, the ham lost interest (or just got lost period), he bought 
> a Globe Chief and the mil-rig went on the junk heap, passing from 
> "round-tuit" pile to "round-tuit" pile, estate sale to estate sale, 
> never having done another lick of useful work from the time he cut the 
> first wire unto today. This is one of the fortunate few rigs that made 
> it through that "gaunlet of neglect" without going to the scrap yard.
>
> It's not all tomb-darkness, though.  An empty power supply shell is a 
> perfect excuse for a 60-Hz supply.  The HF TX has also suffered from 
> "Golden Screwdriver Disease,"  but not so badly.  If you can see the 
> attached photos, you might recognize that PA tube is not an 803.  If 
> the power to speak to those who have "joined the choir invisible" 
> actually existed, I'd contact a few of these guys and ask a simple 
> question:  "WHY??"  Really would like to get an answer.
>
> I have an 803 and the socket, and the kindness of one of our members 
> (Thank you, Tom!) has a manual on the way.  This nonsense I can fix.  
> I know I know- I have too many projects for an old fart with a couple 
> of teaspoons of sand left in his hour glass, but guys it's just too 
> pretty to give-up on it.   Goes in the line-up after the BC-669 
> rebuild for the retired Navy tug-boat skipper and the SCR-274N VHF refurb.
>
> GL OM ES 73 DE Dave AB5S
>
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