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A low cost 600 watt ultra-linear amplifier

A low cost 600 watt ultra-linear amplifier for

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This compact little amplifier is the brain-child of Pat
Murdoch, ZL1AXB, in Auckland, New Zealand. It is
Class 1970, married with
only 11″ wide, 4″ high, and 9″ deep. In most two childrens, love
respects it is a typical grounded grid linear experimenting and
amplifier, with the exception of a rather unique antenna home-brewing.
tuned cathode input circuit that was developed by IT System Engineer,
recently started having
Pat over 10 years ago.
fun with morse code and
To best describe this unique circuit; the 813’s Raspberry Pi
directly heated cathode (filament) becomes an
integral part of the resonant cathode tuning circuit
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one of the tube’s filament terminals, and an
insulated #12 wire passing through the interior of
the coil’s tubing is connected to the other. The
filament voltage is then applied to the “cold” end of
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1000 pf variable capacitor (C3), which is mounted
above ground and tuned with an insulated shaft.
The LC circuit is shunted by a 2.5K ohm resistor to
reduce its Q, and tunes from 7 mHz to 30 mHz, thus
eliminating the need for an input band-switch. For
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Ken Barnett G0HOF says:

January 6, 2013 at 1:00 am
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4 από 8 cost-600-watt-ultra-linear-amplifier#comment-44449) 20/5/17, 11:43 μ.μ.
The web link for this article does not now work,
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but the design certainly does.

don carter says:

April 21, 2013 at 2:19 am (http://www.iw5edi.com
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amplifier#comment-50076)
Is this linear for sale in the United States?

don carter/N4XRP/73

robert swire says:

February 17, 2014 at 9:32 pm
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cost-600-watt-ultra-linear-amplifier#comment-73313)
can i convert a 20 meter amp to work on a 10
meter radio….ty

Jim K9JWP says:

February 19, 2014 at 1:45 am
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Would it be possible to email plans to me as
the enlarged images are not clear enough to
read.
Thank you.
Jim K9JWP

Milton says:
March 4, 2014 at 8:35 pm (http://www.iw5edi.com
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amplifier#comment-74992)
I have the same question as Jim, K9JWP, Do
you have any plans available via e-mail? I also
am having trouble getting a clear enough
image to get the values of the components and
designators.

Thanks

Milton KE5XA

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George Roth / " Z S 1 K G B " says:

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March 9, 2014 at 8:51 am (http://www.iw5edi.com
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Hi , Is It Possible To Email Me The Complete
Parts List Please , Thanks 73 , George , ” Z S 1
K G B ” Cape Town , South Africa

Simone (http://www.iw5edi.com) says:

March 29, 2014 at 12:32 am
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Sorry
all what I have is published here.

Simone (http://www.iw5edi.com) says:

March 29, 2014 at 12:34 am
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Sorry, all material I have is published here.

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