A night at Lieutenant Dan's little
shack of horrors.
Dan's recently acquired GWE III transmitter.
This was built by my old friend Ed Mantic N3GWE.
Ed sold it to Don Merz N3RHT and Dan won it on ebay from him.
Dan and I picked it up at Don's and had a nice visit viewing what was left of Don's extensive radio collection.
13 meters give a real feeling of confidence running the rig, so much so that while I was at the controls Dan exclaimed "something's smoking!", the meters showed no sign of distress so I felt no need to un-key. Smoke turned out to be from the variac we were using to bring it up on.
Backside of Dan and the GWE III with its plastic "cat covers" removed.
Close up of one of many large Jones connectors. We had the rig working briefly on 40 meters. First issue was some smoking of Dan's variac. Then we lost the high B+ without any warning. None of the telltale zorches, flashes or smoke occurred, B+ just went away. We poked around for an hour or so but without a schematic or wanting to completely dissemble the rig we didnt find the problem. Likely will need to reverse engineer the transmitter and make some drawings.
Side shot of the Apache. Note the high vacuum rectifiers are still in place.
