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W5RAA Vintage Ham Radio Repair

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W5RAA Vintage Ham Radio Repair

Experience repairing: Collins, Heathkit, Johnson, Drake, National, Lafayette, Halicrafters, etc. Based in Dallas area with references.

06/22/2024

What’s your favorite 77 meter AM transmitter and aerial?

06/22/2024

Do you prefer RCA or Amperex tubes?

06/22/2024

It’s field day. What will you do to make it better than last year? Will you run AM on 77 meters?

05/04/2024

Good question

11/11/2023

If your rig is failing RAA will get you winning again!

12/19/2021

Thank you Neil! 🎄

Experience repairing: Collins, Heathkit, Johnson, Drake, National, Lafayette, Halicrafters, etc. Bas

12/19/2021

Christmas is upon us. The perfect time to get on the air. Do you have an old boat anchor gathering dust in your shack? Dig it out and get that plate modulated beauty on the air. If it’s sick you can contact us to get it going for you again. Preserving AM glory one rig at a time! 🎙

11/09/2021

Fall is the perfect time to get that boat anchor running.

10/08/2021

08/28/2021

I’ve been taking some PTO to get work done here at new QTH. I’ll get back to y’all in a bit. Thank you.

05/01/2021

Ardmore, OK Hamfest in the works.

This is the on-line home for the Texoma Hamarama.

04/23/2021

Hope to see you at the Emory Hamfest this weekend. If you come away with a boat anchor that needs a tune up or redo let us know. We specialize in getting big iron back on the air.

02/08/2021

Spring cleaning will soon be on our minds. Great time to dig out that old boat anchor and let us get it going for you. Bring us your tired, your poor, your dysfunctional and huddled boat anchor masses and we’ll get them going in a jiffy.
No one does it better. 🎙

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Just shows you don’t need a complicated / massive antenna farm to run AM on 20 meters.

Globe 6 N 2

Rich's Globe Highbander Ready to Go

This Henry Amp needs a new power supply.

Tube type amplifiers are probably the easiest vintage equipment to repair because the are all basically designed the same. They have tuned input and output sections, a HV power supply, and a final output section consisting of the power tube(s), the tank circuit and the HV choke. Most are grounded grid designs (or partially grounded) with heavy duty filament chokes and associated wiring. The most common failure modes are the tubes, power supply and relays. Please beware of LETHAL voltages inside and do build a bang stick!