We had a guy leading morse code in our club a few years ago (before the scamdemic). Went about 3 months until unfortunately he's now SK. He would teach us a couple letters, then a few nights a week he'd go on one of the repeaters and send us code using those letters. Unfortunately he passed away pretty quickly, not exactly sure from what, it's been kept a secret, he just said at his last meeting, "I went to the doctor and it's not looking good." -- I still have the straight key he let me borrow, and then his wife gave me this huge, what has to be 1,000lb 1KW amp that is really pretty old. My wife keeps asking me to toss it, but all it needs is a little rebuilding. Not sure it's worth it though, it's hard for me to throw it away as it was something he had stored away as well.
Don’t toss it see if it’s salvageable, I wouldn’t know any of the old tube tech. I do know a few of the old Elmers would though. 😀 heck we have a guy on one of our nets that’s in his late 90’s.
We had a guy leading morse code in our club a few years ago (before the scamdemic). Went about 3 months until unfortunately he's now SK. He would teach us a couple letters, then a few nights a week he'd go on one of the repeaters and send us code using those letters. Unfortunately he passed away pretty quickly, not exactly sure from what, it's been kept a secret, he just said at his last meeting, "I went to the doctor and it's not looking good." -- I still have the straight key he let me borrow, and then his wife gave me this huge, what has to be 1,000lb 1KW amp that is really pretty old. My wife keeps asking me to toss it, but all it needs is a little rebuilding. Not sure it's worth it though, it's hard for me to throw it away as it was something he had stored away as well.
There are sites you can go on to order tubes. Don't throw it away. Someone out there can bring it to life.
Yes, I plan to. It's just really heavy and takes up quite a bit of space in the garage.
Don’t toss it see if it’s salvageable, I wouldn’t know any of the old tube tech. I do know a few of the old Elmers would though. 😀 heck we have a guy on one of our nets that’s in his late 90’s.
No, I'm definitely not getting rid of it, I believe all it needs is a Tetrode and a little cleaning up of the solder, I'm sure it'll fire right up.