🚀 go-pugleaf

>Dynamoters...you forgot the true dinosaurs of High Voltage.  The proper
>technique when using dynamotor powered ARC-5 transmitters was to press
>the mike key and wait a second or so until the motor was up to speed.
>It really brings back memories of adding another battery to the car's
>electrical system to bring the voltage up to 24 volts for the dynamoters.
>--
>Larry                                   |   Thunder makes all the noise;

You sure know how to make a guy feel old!!! And I'm only 30 !!!
I remember playing with these as kid growing up in my dad's TV/2way radio
repair shop. He used to get them from army surplus places and old retired
police radios. The old cop car units were neat since they would run off
12V and provide about 400v for b+ for making homemade 50watt RF amps 
for two way radios (no comment on what meter band these were tuned to :-)
I think they were made by either GE or Motorola and I think my dad may
even have one or two of these old dynamotors in the junk pile. When the
mike was keyed, you could even hear the 400Hz whine at the receiving end
since large electrolytic filter caps were at premium back then and difficult
to get in small towns.

Ahhh, the good old days.
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= Neal Howard                         | '91 Harley Sportster XLH-1200 =
= email: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org     | DoD # 686                     =
= CompuTrac, Inc. (Richardson, TX)    | '69 Cougar XR7-GT390          =
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