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Temp test bench10 viewsA cursory setup of my test bench, prior to installing a full bench in my garage.
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MFJ-986 Inside View10 viewsThis tuner only uses one capacitor and a roller inductor. Saves time compared to my other tuner, which uses two cap's and an inductor.
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Bigfoot 11 Tube'r9 viewsYou counted correct; this death trap used 3 tubes to drive 8! 11 Tubes, ah ah ah!
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Galaxy Saturn Turbo9 viewsA stock photo of RCI's version of the Galaxy Turbo. My rig has the amber display. At my old QTH, I had this setup in the entertainment center, right under TiVo. Now it's setup at my office attached to an IMAX 2000 vertical.
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Obviously single8 viewsThis was NOT my car, but it is remarkable!
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Bedroom test bench8 viewsThis was actually in my bedroom circa ~2000. Of course, that was before I was married. (just kidding honey)
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Roller Inductor8 viewsThis is the massive roller inductor inside the MFJ-986 antenna tuner. Works nice and smooth, unlike some of the reviews.
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Inside the MFJ-9867 views
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Radio Shack HTX-106 views
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To be serviced...6 viewsA cobra 146GTL (Merlin's old mobile), Superstar 3900 Gold, Radio Shack TRC-473, and three Cobra 148GTL's.
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KMEX Studios Bench6 viewsMy Cobra 2000GTL and Texas Star DX400 setup at the ol' six-pack shack (R.I.P.)
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Bigfoot 11 Tube'r5 viewsNot many power sockets can handle this 11-tube bad-boy. Picked this up from Matador out in the "909". Never had enough power at 120VAC to key it down properly, but it's estimated to put out nearly 2 kilowatts PEP.
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Radio Shack TRC-4445 viewsI just sold this loud RadShack to JR (aka: StarFox)...
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Golden Falcon5 viewsThis 6 tuber may be a Golden Falcon or Anderson... Perhaps a homebrew? Not sure. It was purchased in the Joker buy-out.
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Palomar Deluxe 3505 viewsI think Merlin traded this to me for a Uniden Grant and accessories. Who knows? It's the smaller of my two mobile amps.
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Palomar 350 Deluxe5 viewsInside view of my Palo' 3fiddy.
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Pride DX-3004 viewsA Pride DX300, which ran on a single ceramic tube.
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Texas Star DX4004 viewsMy favorite mobile amp yet. Super reliable and cool as a cucumber, even after hours of QSO.
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KMEX Bench4 viewsMy Galaxy Turbo and Astatic D104 Night Eagle, on the bench of my old radio room.
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The Bad Boy Galaxy Saturn Turbo4 viewsCurrently setup on my base, using a 102" whip mounted to the patio railing at 45°! SWR is (incredibly) 1.5:1 @ 27.345MHz
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Yaesu FT-101E Transceiver4 viewsMy new (Nov, 2007) HF base station, including auxiliary VFO and dual cabinet speakers. Real radios GLOW in the dark!
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Heterodyne Frequency Meter CKB-740284 views
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Wilson Ground Plane4 views
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MFJ-9864 viewsThis is my newest manual antenna tuner. My other one won't handle more than 300 watt's. The 986 handles up to 2K. It should be sufficient for now.
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