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

[Michael Hanz]

Zorro's treatment of this fine old transmitter is one of the best and 
most comprehensive that I have seen on the web.  For anyone wondering 
about the shock mounts on his GO-9, there is a cautionary tale on those at

http://aafradio.org/garajmahal/GO-9_shock_mounts.html

-Mike  KC4TOS


On 8/13/2019 11:16 AM, B. Smith wrote:
> 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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