Which one of you guys made this monster?

[Big Kahuna]

Someone had too much time on their hands

https://www.ebay.com/itm/President-...434671&hash=item36768b8a15:g:Oe0AAOSwKX1gPsox

Why did you climb the mountain? Because it was there.

 

[Cabover Bob]

Hope they solder better than they cut/grind/paint.....

 

[sunbulls]

Paint is way too thick. Another example of why you should apply washers. Unless it's powder coated or baked on paint, even a thin coat will often peel or pull off under the screw heads.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Only $550

 

[undertaker]

Dud....

 

[Slowmover]

I’d take it — on principle — over a MR X.

We’ll I.D. him by the station pics. I see an old army cot buried over to the side and am pretty sure that’s a stack of Penthouse magazines underneath.

He’s a hands-on kinda guy.

 

[snippits75]

If you jaw like I do, Lincoln runs hot. Regulator side hotter than the heatsink.

 

[TheRealPorkchop]

That’s as ugly as...doing you know what, you know where.

 

[TM86]

I’d take it — on principle — over a MR X.

We’ll I.D. him by the station pics. I see an old army cot buried over to the side and am pretty sure that’s a stack of Penthouse magazines underneath.

He’s a hands-on kinda guy.

Hope he didn't have a stroke while working on that radio.

 

[jdchet]

For that price................maybe a fire suppression system should be included?

JD

 

[Low_Boy]

Why when I read the title is that the first radio that came to mind. And I was right.

 

[lonestarbandit]

Holy crapcicles......

 

[Shockwave]

LOL, the seller says it took him several months (on and off) to bolt the cheap Palomar to the Lincoln... More likely that it took him several months to figure out he couldn't get the RFI out of the radios audio stages, powering them both up from the same DC wire without proper decoupling. The first time I bolted four Toshiba's to the back of an RCI-2950, I was fairly surprised how much extra RF bypassing it took on the DC line, to get them to cooperate with each other, being fed off the same wire and zero distance between them.

It takes a decent amount of LC filtering to keep 400 watts of RF from backing down 4 inches of power wire and finding its way right into the radios DC feedline. The typical symptom is squeals on AM and carriers on SSB. After perfecting this process, about 10 of those "RCI-29500's" were built for customers. It's been a while but if you ever see an RCI-2950 with a long Motorola "Maxtrac" heatsink bolted to its back, that's a keeper and has four Toshiba's biased up in class AB.

 

[TM86]

It takes a decent amount of LC filtering to keep 400 watts of RF from backing down 4 inches of power wire and finding its way right into the radios DC feedline. The typical symptom is squeals on AM and carriers on SSB. After perfecting this process, about 10 of those "RCI-29500's" were built for customers. It's been a while but if you ever see an RCI-2950 with a long Motorola "Maxtrac" heatsink bolted to its back, that's a keeper and has four Toshiba's biased up in class AB.

Great, another unicorn for me to chase.