[600MRG] RAKs and such - ballast tube.

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

OK I will bite.

What does a ballast tube do?  Does it help during battle?

I really don't know what it is and I would like to learn.

73
David
N1EA


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
wrote:

> On 3 Nov 2014 at 14:59, Bill Cromwell wrote:
>
> > Hi Rudy,
> >
> > My RAK is all original AND I use the original power supply. We can pull
> > the ballast tube out of those (unless we are going into naval combat).
> > That leaves a pretty much standard B+ with a voltage regulator - two of
> > the three original tubes. You just unplug that ballast tube pull it and
> store it
> > someplace 'safe'.
>
> Ha! Youse guys... (shakes head...)
>
> You don't have to remove that ballast tube: there is a switch down at the
> bottom, inside, that simply turns it off. That way you can "store" the
> ballast
> tube in the power supply.
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
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