[OKDXA] TN8K Fun...

[Kim Elmore]

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

> On Jan 6, 2023, at 6:48 PM, N5OK <coyday62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Wow!  That will get your attention.  No smoke is a good thing.
> 
> Coy C Day, N5OK
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> 
>> On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 6:02 PM Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I just had a nice shot of adrenaline here. I have TN only on 20 m but
>> they had a nice signal on 17. So, I fired up the amp (my AL-1200) and
>> joined the fray. Nuthin' more fun than bustin' a big pileup.
>> 
>> About 15 min in I see a FLASH! accompanied by a loud POW! and the amp
>> goes dark. I didn't smell anything. No smoke. Meters look OK (nothing
>> permanently pinned). I check the fuses and both are blown. I get two
>> spares and replace the blown ones, grit my teeth and turn it on.
>> 
>> Everything is fine, as if nothing unusual had happened. It was clearly a
>> HV breakdown someplace. I thought maybe the plate choke had suffered an
>> unfortunate resonance but, nope, it's fine. A tube glitch would have
>> opened the plate choke (at least). It all seems to work perfectly fine...
>> 
>> 73 & CU in the Pileups (maybe),
>> 
>> Kim N5OP
>> 
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