pounds per watt

I can just see the green earth save energy save the planet people coming after you in droves. As well no doubt the EPA will have something to say about it.

One good thing comes of it possibly. If you can get enough of these and pile them on this side of the planet you might offset the wobble in the axis of earths orbit caused by that big dam china built.

 

It'll be interesting to see how you convert a VHF transmitter to CB...

 

Goowwd Lawd!

Really what is that? Looks like some old military stuff.

 

That would be a blast to have for a fake install on the catwalk... a couple lights, some dummy cable... it would the stuff of Billy Bigrigger legends after a week or two! Fake a couple antennae out of one inch tube, it'd be like this wherever you parked:

 

That would have made a great sight gag, though.
I was looking hard at the pics to see if someplace in that stack lay an SCR-522. We had one at my college club station, and two of the seniors spent part of my freshman year converting it to 2 meters. But this was in 1970, when the Greenbrook (NJ) repeater was one of only a handful of FM repeaters in the northeast at all, I think.

Hammer's sight gag idea reminds me of an oft-repeated thought that Jimi Hendrix, famous for playing in front of his famous "wall of sound" amp stack (either Sunn or Marshall, depending upon the tour), was actually doing something similar. The rumor is that all those huge cabinets were empty, and hidden behind them was a little Fender Champ or Princeton Reverb to a mic and out to the house system.

I like to think he would have messed with us all that way. I'm a bassist, but I'd have killed to play with Jimi, and I'm the right age. <sigh>
73,
Handlebar
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I recognized this old VHF transmitter for what it is/was. Some of them were in the 140 MHZ range, some were tweaked for 150 MHZ, and others for 108-136 air band. They were used in military ATC towers, How many of them do you want? I know where's there's two right now!

Shame on you for pulling Billy Big Rigger's leg like that!!!! Gettin' his hopes up like that with dreams (drools) of megawatts dancing in his head! Shame! SHAME!

GF

 

Now if that radio had been a BC-610 HF transmitter? My my! Talk about lightin' up some florescent lights. Hams got 'em surplus by the thousands back in the day! Five hundred(?) watts + AM! Serious "Far in th' 'war'", boy, I'll tell you!!!! A CB'ers heaven if he could get hold of one--or tune it!

I helped a fellow ham bring one in the house one time. Weighed about 800 lbs (I'm guessing). Four of us were struggling with it up on the front porch while the man's wife was raising you-know-what.

"DINK, YOU AIN'T BRINGING THAT THANG IN THIS HOUSE," she cried.

"AW SHADDUP, WOMAN," He retorted.

So while we were stumbling around trying to get this thing in the house, it FELL thru the porch!!!!!!!

OH! H**, We've done it now!

Took the rest of the day to jack it up and get it into the living room!

Uh..........................Dink was loaded with $$$$, and the way he solved the dilemma was, he built her a new Spanish-style, tri-level white brick ranch!!!!!!!

LOL!

GF

 

About 400, actually, but those are pre-war MIL-spec pounds. Not those wimpy pounds we have today...