Very good Doc! I have the 350Z and modified it to turn off the high voltage when it is idling. It was a lot of work to do it right, but worth it. I got my 350Z from a little old man who only turned it on once a month. That’s why it still exists. Let’s not forget the “Palomar Digicom 100 by CPI”, CB radio!
@tramdr
6 ай бұрын
I hope you did the screen that way too. Palomar Digicom is a transistor mobile, I am a tube base man.
@keithweiss7899
6 ай бұрын
@@tramdr yes I did. I am a tube guy in radios and amps. My favorite is the Browning Golden Eagle Mark III for the radio. I build my own tube amps, but I kind of like the Black Cat amps. This is an enjoyable series!
@keithweiss7899
6 ай бұрын
@@tramdr I remember my first tube radio, a Metrotek Pacer II. As radios go it wasn’t that great. But it sure did beat my Midland 13-882C that I was using! The receiver was much better! I really got to know greatness when I bought my Golden Eagle Mark III. What a great receiver and loud transmitter! People all over talked about what a loud radio it is. And it’s receiver is so quiet! That’s why they reconditioned Collins R-390A receivers during the Gulf War. The tube receivers worked, but the solid state radios failed!
@rayinpau.s.a.6351
6 ай бұрын
Looking at this Collection brings back memories of when I collected CB Radios and Linears . I owned just about the same collection you are sharing with Us . I had at one time almost 100 CB Base Stations , And over 200 D104 Microphones . People were giving this stuff away in the 90's .
@digitalwacker
6 ай бұрын
PAL is the same company as FireStik. PAL was started by some hippies. It stood for Peace and Love. They eventually stopped producing VFO's and other hardware and focused on their antenna business.
@captainmidnight5958
6 ай бұрын
The UFO... 👍
@rocklickranch2804
6 ай бұрын
Awesome video Doc! I always enjoy the history lessons. I remember all this equipment. I’m from back when they had cb jamborees and coffee breaks. You’d see manufacturers set up booths at the jamborees.
@thesquirrelchroniclesakare7808
6 ай бұрын
I personally love all of the Palomars. Great running amps
@tramdr
6 ай бұрын
I agree, except that most models had the HV on all the time problem and could go up in smoke even in standby until Palomar came up with the HV relay mod. Also, the 350Z sucked from day one. I knew a guy from back in the day got one new. Nothing but problems with that one.
@thesquirrelchroniclesakare7808
6 ай бұрын
@@tramdr I have always had good luck with D and A amps . Love those as well 👍🏻
@tedneitzel
19 күн бұрын
My black face 300A has the crome top. Sweet collection!
@tramdr
18 күн бұрын
Black and Chrome, Lovely!!
@danieljohnson8437
6 ай бұрын
Outstanding, Collection... Beautiful
@ReallifeBambiDeerattheFarm1
6 ай бұрын
I would think that tubes are going to get harder to find and more expensive to boot. Very nice amps!
@bblod4896
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the history lesson Doc.
@tramdr
6 ай бұрын
You are very welcome
@ScottsRadios
6 ай бұрын
I have a black face 300a. Nice unit.
@tramdr
6 ай бұрын
One of the best sweep tube amps ever made.
@handsupbud
6 ай бұрын
I had to go lay down a few hours as I got sea sick watching this video.
@tramdr
6 ай бұрын
I understand. I am on the autistic scale and get severe motion sickness. However, I may suggest you take my videos in small bite size sizes.
@dordorr9509
6 ай бұрын
TramDr nice collection. I just sent you a text about the crusader amp. BUG aka 654 Las Vegas Nevada
@maninthevan53
6 ай бұрын
thanks
@maninthevan53
6 ай бұрын
I bought a Palomar 200 x my first usable tube amplifier, can you do a video of a proper way to tune this amp,I was always Transistors
@tramdr
6 ай бұрын
It has that in the manual here: cbtricks.org/Amp/palomar/200x/graphics/palomar_200x_base.pdf
@zman4150
6 ай бұрын
Great informative video! I would like to ask you if you're familiar with the 321 amp - 1 driving 3 - that looks like a white face Skipper 300. Were those made by PAL, or just a copy? What kind of output can we expect from the Skipper 300?
@miketaylor2197
6 ай бұрын
Pretty sure the 321 was made by Palomar for PAL. they had several like that. I used to own a 3 tube mobile PAL. And have a 321 and a Palomar 300a now
@williamrhodes740
6 ай бұрын
Do you have any Elkin linear amplifiers you can show us?
@jwgbmp40
6 ай бұрын
what do the 10 thru 40 band switches do? I have that white face 300A, it was my grandpas. It works with a cb quite well, but I have never turned the band switch. it stays on "10". Its how I remember him running it around 1978, lol.. Also, on your top metal shelf in the rear, far left, is an amp of some sort, red case atop black fins, it has 4 switches on the face with 4 L>E>D>s below the switches, what can you tell us about it? I have one of those too.
@miketaylor2197
6 ай бұрын
The band switch was their attempt to pass off their amps as legit ham amplifiers. But they were made for 11m band operation.
@miketaylor2197
6 ай бұрын
I guess technically you could use them on those other bands. But seeing as how the amps were made for 1970s era cb radio drive input and most ham radios put out 100 watts or more, it would make it tricky to get them to not let out the magic smoke.
@elbertsimpson7529
6 ай бұрын
I think I have the 150 1 drive 2 not 160.
@tramdr
6 ай бұрын
I thought the 150 is mobile and the 160 is base.
@elbertsimpson7529
6 ай бұрын
May very well be the one i have is a mobile 12v primary internal ps
@coolhand6669
6 ай бұрын
Best linear amplifier ever had is a Palmar 305 I had that thing on a grounded quad Pole the head great ground plane I used to key down and people 300 miles away would say holy crap are you my living room and I'd say no I'm up here in Palos Verdes California and it would go no you can't be you sound like you're right next to me it was a great amplifier the only problem was the bleed over I guess it was because I grounded everything my radios and my amplifiers to the cold water pipe really good and it would bleed over into the house like if I key down in the microwave was running seriously or the TVs or any electronic stuff you can only scare me over it it was really weird it didn't mess up my neighbors too bad because my antennas pointed outwards towards Southern Southern California and up towards Northern California so it didn't believe how much over bleed behind it but it was a great amplifier
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