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Old Gear on 2m that works

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:28 am
by ZL3MH
Last night I worked ZL2WHO, ZL2BRG and ZL2TGQ. I am a
FT101zd collector so here are some pic's of the gear.
The VHF Station
The VHF Station
To the far right is the FTV650b a 6m Transverter. This one has a valve final, a 2002. I replace it with a 6882b a 12v 6146b.
This gear is designed for the FT101 series with sweep tubes and 650v on the plate, not the FT101zd which has 6146s and 800v loaded and up to 900v unloaded plate voltage.
VK3OT had a very usefull mod that takes the plate voltage off the final tuning pi network. At 6m the 6882b is working very hard with 150ma peaks on the meter.
Power out is 50 watts

Re: Old Gear on 2m that works

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:30 am
by ZL3MH
The FTV250 Closeup

Re: Old Gear on 2m that works

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:31 am
by ZL3MH
Night shot of the Antenna Designed by VK2ZAB Gordon
12 elements on a 5 meter boom

Re: Old Gear on 2m that works

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:24 am
by ZL3MH
Another night time shot the HF 2 element Beam a TE-23m
and the 6m 4 element beam using a Canon G16 camera
and a flash
Picture 502.jpg

Re: Old Gear on 2m that works

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:23 pm
by ZL3MH
The Satellite Antenna's

Re: Old Gear on 2m that works

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:36 pm
by ZL2BRG
And it works well too Murray. Are you active on 23cm ?

Re: Old Gear on 2m that works

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 7:24 pm
by VK5EI
Great set up Murray, the Yaesu line up looks good and those sat antennas getting into the bird (VO52) great this evening. Booming 5/9 signal from you into Adelaide, thanks again for the contact :D
cheers
Joe