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Re: The power of the:
« on: July 29, 2012, 10:05:01 PM »
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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2012, 11:01:09 PM »
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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2012, 11:49:32 PM »
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Hi,

Sure I did, but I haven't used it now for over 15 years or since all my amature equipment was stolen. Wow!!!!

Surprised you never figured it out as soon as I posted a dash :)

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Didn't know you knew that, you an operator?

smerf

I was taught by an uncle when I was a kid, but I have to confess, I don't recall much of it from then. Then in a previous job, my manager turned out to be a big amateur radio enthusiast and was quite into it. When he wasn't trying to bounce radio signals off the moon with some crazily powerful home made antenna array, that is. And in case you wondered, it was actually part of a legitimate competition, nothing tinfoil-hat related. He had some dodgy former soviet era RF 2.5kW power amplifier valve tubes delivered to work one day. At least that's what he said they were. They looked like fat ceramic sparkplugs with massive copper heatsinks. They wouldn't have looked out of place in a vault-tec installation ;)
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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2012, 12:10:24 AM »
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Yes those were klystron tubes,

I couldn't say, but they looked a bit like these:


...only with a dull copper heatsink rather than whatever aluminium (or similar) that appears to be. For scale, the heatsink was a good 5 inches in diameter.

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Ahhh the good old days.

Quite. These days, if there isn't an "app for it", people aren't interested :(
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