The shack at Amateur Radio Station N0UN.
How about this? My Father bought the estate of W8OPM after he became a silent key back in the mid 70′s. He figured the “new” radios might keep me out of trouble through my teenage years (he was wrong). I operated Mike’s old Hallicrafters HT-44, SX-117 and HT-45 Loudenboomer amp for years before everything had to go when my mother wanted to sell her house. I didn’t have a place to put the basement full of radio equipment at the time (early 90′s) so it all had to go, and it had to go fast.
Fast forward to 2010. Can you believe the Ham I sold the rack mounted power supply and Hallicrafters HT-45 Loudenboomer to in the early 90′s sold it back to me? Ed (KB8CQ) followed me home from a Parma Radio Club meeting on that dreaded day when I knew it all had to go, and he purchased the rack power supply and Hallicrafters HT-45 for $100 that night. I asked him for $75, he gave me $100. The next day a local Ham Radio Liquidator removed the the racks and radios for no payment to my Mother (but he didn’t charge her either). They disassembled a 7′ tall, 3 panel wide military rack full of equipment and loaded boxes upon boxes of radios – filling a trailer full of my old stuff. Mom then sold the house a few months later and none of the equipment has ever resurfaced that I’ve ever seen, except for the single rack power supply and HT-45 Loudenboomer that Ed bought.
Here’s how Karma works. I happened to talk to an old mutual friend of ours recently (Bill, N8WS) and I asked if Ed still had the amp and power supply, and if he did - how much would he want for it. Bill contacted Ed and to my surprised Ed was willing to part with it, and part with it for what he paid for it back then, $100.
I had to pick myself off the floor.
I jumped on a plane to Cleveland, met with Ed and like he did for me decades ago, I did for him. He asked $100 for everything, I gave him $200.
My friend here in Colorado (Keith, K0KE) was coming straight through Cleveland on his way back from his summer lake home in New York the next day with his pick-up truck, so we loaded up the gear and Keith drove it home to Denver.
The icing on the cake? Check the videos. Everything works perfectly! In fact, from what I remember (my mind may have been full of smoke back then), I think it works better than it did in 1974! Thank-you Bill! Thank-you Ed! Thank-you Keith!
A kilowatt OUTPUT from a single 40+ year old 3-400Z? Good stuff.
- Cushcraft A3S
Low power for the Cushcraft A3S…
- Hy Gain 203BA
“Full” power for the 203BA
Hey Wayne, thought I’d send you a hello from the Canadian 1 watt contact station VE3FST Pete . Nice ride you got there bud . Check out the pics of my ride .Catch you on the airwaves….73′s Peter
I was surprised how loud you actually were on 1 watt Pete.
Good meeting you
73,
N0UN
Hi Wayne……just a correction….your signal was 9/5 ,and note.. i was using a ts50 ( 100w)
on a “long wire” ( about 15m) with a 4:1 balun,all home made ,2.5mts above ground.
A 7800km contact on these conditions …well,not that bad ( for me)
73
Hi Wayne
Tnx for this early morning qso
I was using only 50w in a delta loop antenna.
I like your bike
well i can’t hear you today and you wouldn’t hear me often with my 10 wats but hello again.
see you if i can get home., nice site. I wanna live in the local desert near you. As there is an aera that is exactly the same warmth and phyical depth of magnitisium . my call m3pza.
you didn’t want to remember me so say hello to all the people i know.madlife isn’t..lol
Poppie
A Tennadyne T-8 or T-10 would just ice the cake on that tower! hihi
73 Paul N0AH
Hey:
Is the HT 45 really putting out 1000 watts peak out? I had one years ago and as far as I remember it had an pep INPUT of around 1000 watts. Build like a battleship. Eimac air socket, big transformer and oil hi-voltage condenser. 73s de Hans SM5KI
Hello Hans, yes it does do 1 KW OUTPUT from the original 3-400Z (surely not for long).
As you see in the videos, that’s not the original power supply. I had 3,600V on the plate in the video. I almost never run it that hot though, usually keep it around 3K for 750 to 800 watts.
73 & good DX
Wayne, N0UN
What a nice story…….and love the FT1000D…..I run a nice one too………Dave M0OGY ,North Lincolnshire UK.
Good job!!!
Hi Wayne,
Hope all is well. Just setting up to get back on the air. Now have a new call sign 5N1KWO.
Will get in touch with you soon.
Regards,
Tola (ex 5N9KWO)
Heard you on 14.240 recently with Rick working Argentina Wayne!
Ka7niq – Tampa
Hi Wayne!
Thx for letting me in.Lovely signal into South Africa. Like your blog,pixs exetra. TC
ZS1WC
Hello Jacques and thanks for the comment. Good to work you on 20 Meters. You’re always welcome my friend, always! We love DXing! See you soon
73,
Wayne, N0UN