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John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote in news:higgy-167451.17422418072010
@news.announcetech.com:

> In article <Xns9DB9CD426C064noonehomecom@74.209.131.13>,
>  Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
> 
>> Harris DX 50?
> 
> No, but...
> 
> Harris DX-10
> Harris MW-50
> Nautel NX50 (and ND50)
> Harris CD25
> 
> and the list goes on and on.
> 

Yeah, you've had your fingers burned a time or two, too....(c;]

Harris has kinda taken the fun outa high voltage and tubes.....

Have you ever cruised through Jim Hawkins' website?

http://hawkins.pair.com/radio.html

I stood in the fish hold of an old Canadian fishing trawler being 
outfitted in Charleston by a radio preacher who runs a commune full of 
suckers near Walterboro, SC, the Rev Ralph Stair, who has a perpensity 
for sex with young girls.

They had this transmitter:
http://hawkins.pair.com/voanc/voanc07.jpg
bought from government surplus at VOA running 70KW to 600 ohm open wire 
feeders that terminated with only one leg hooked to the insulator that 
exploded over my head I'm holding on my QRZ webpage for W4CSC.  The 
feedthru sat at the bottom of a nice T cage antenna the ATU on the TMC 
beast tuned just below it through this insulator.  Unfortunately, the 
insulator was only rated for 300KV and, as you can see by my souvenir 
with the rather impressive black arc down the side of the porcelain, 
didn't pass inspection at full power.  Everyone glowed quite blue with 
RF St Elmo's Fire inside the fish hold while she was on 7.308 Mhz until 
the little fault blew the antenna up and tripped out the breakers.

It wasn't going to work as a pirate radio ship off Belize, the plans the 
preacher had for it, spewing out his religious nonsense.  The RF current 
through the hull into the sea was EATING THE HULL!  They ate several 
holes in the steel hull that even big grounding blocks couldn't stop at 
this power level....(c;]

FCC showed up and confiscated it all in a big show of force with a crane 
stolen from the Navy contractor across the Wando River which ended the 
pirate radio ship idea.  I was just a friend of the pirate op and 
captain who wanted out because he was paranoid the "brothers", the 
bearded faithful of the preacher, were going to feed him to the fish 
rather than continue to pay him to run the ship once it was in operation 
off Belize.  He slept with his gun....not a good sign.

Jim Hawkins' Radio website is the best broadcast transmitter museum on 
the net!  Great guy, too.

73 DE W4CSC

-- 
iPhone 4 is to cellular technology what the Titanic is to cruise ships.

Larry