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My next project...Winter 2010
The vintage
AM/CW stations
at
W8TOW
A panoramic view of my shack.
Since the "Gates 250GY" incident, my shack has changed a little.
Here are some new pictures!
The main station with the T-200 PP HB Tx is a WRL Globe Champ RF Deck and an array of pre-WWII receivers: HQ-120X, RME-69 & Super Pro 10. In the center is the Johnson 500 station with a late SX-101A.
My main station
Taylor T-200 AM transmitter
The Big Rig
Just some pictures of my T200 project. Nothing new,
simply bringing back some photos that havn't been on the web for awhile.
Taylor T200's in PP modulated by 203Z's .
The RF deck is done, a B&W Butterfly cap in the tank circuit with a Johnson output coil.
The modulator will be a pair of Taylor 822's in Class B later this fall. Both the Class C and Class B decks have their own power supplies. About 2000 VDC at 500mA is available for the T-200's and a 1250 Volt supply is used for the Class B. The transmitter is driven by a WRL GLOBE CHAMP 175 RF deck. That deck is just a single 812A triode, 2E26 & 7C5 MOPA.
My 1940 Station
Used now on 160m.
The 1941 transmitter using a pair of Taylor T-40's PP and an 807, 6L6 exciter is finished. It was featured in the March and November 1941 issues of Radio Magazine .
Here are some new pictures with a schematic from the March article.
A National HRO5TA-1 is used for receive and Thordarson table top speech amp is located on the far left of the transmitter. Frequency control is a BUD VFO-21 electron coupled oscillator. In the rack is a 1940/2000 home brew tx running a pair of Taylor T-40's modulated by TZ40's. Thordarson CHT iron weighs down the bottom of the rack! (A 1936 MacElroy bug, trim "cans" & a pre-war D-104 is on the desk.)
My workshop
Looks like a Ranger is getting the work-over!
I spend some of my "free time" working on gear for other people who are into vintage gear. Using old radios on the air is really fun, but only modern test equipment will keep them dependable!
If you need some repairs done, drop me an e-mail!
vri 73 Steve W8TOW
w8towcom@w8tow.com
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