GB> W4QCU Homebrew AM rig

[john]

They're Thordarson CHP series iron....

John K5MO




At 07:25 AM 9/4/2005, bcarling at cfl.rr.com wrote:
>VERY NICE - that large AM transmitter looks so CLEAN here
>60 years later! He used some VERY nice-looking transformers.
>I love that look with the rounded corners and black wrinkle paint!
>
>Bry, AF4K
>
>On 4 Sep 2005 at 1:10, WB1GFH at aol.com wrote:
>
>http://pages.prodigy.net/w4qcu/bertha.collage.jpg
>
> > Speaking of homebrew...what was once commonplace is now becoming a lost 
> art.
> > To see evidence of this all one has to do is look at "Big Bertha", a xmtr
> > presently owned by W4QCU. Bertha runs 500 watts to push-pull 100THs 
> modulated by a
> > pair of 805's, she stands 7 feet tall and weighs in at 600 pounds. The rig
> > was constructed by Casey Kasefang, W4HYG (now a SK) after WW-II. Nearly 
> all of
> > the components date from the late 1930s.
> >
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