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OK...picture time. :takepix:

First, we have the leftovers from the TSX show...

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Chad's bright yellow banana.

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Aiiiieee! The camera will steal my souuuuul! Note Rachel's look that says, "Tom is such an idiot..." :D

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Dave's wiring when we pulled out the Revo. Friends don't let friends use butt connectors. Dave = teh fired.

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Where's the positive lead for the outboard processor? Oh yeah, it's held together with electrical tape and dreams. Also visible is the Sundown Audio monoblock :)

OK...Field Day 2006 stuff. The weather absolutely sucked, but at least we had cigars and beer, the cause was not all lost.

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The VHF antenna array, three elements on six meters with the top antenna for 2 meters. VHF propagation actually was pretty good.

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The Unified Command bus at night...this was about five minutes before the onboard generator blew a fuse and wouldn't start back up again for the rest of the night. Missed the AC :(

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For the past couple years, the local electric co-op has been kind enough to let us use a bucket truck over the weekend, as a mobile 40+ foot antenna support. Comes in real handy, though in an actual emergency we'd have to make do without it :D

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Some of the antennas. The scale is a little misleading - the mast on the left is 66 feet tall, it's a quarter-wave vertical for 80 meters. The smaller one is for the 10 meter band.

Alright...new pics of the preamp.

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Toobz! And what's this, a remote? Werd. Now I wonder if a universal remote will work with this...hehe.

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The power supply is a seperate unit, so it doesn't take up space internally. Connects to the main chassis with a locking DIN plug.

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Two preamp outputs, so one goes to the monoblocks, the other goes to the low-level inputs on the Adire Rava instead of the high level inputs I had been using before.

That's it...run along now...

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Paris Hilton, "That's Hot!"

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Now that's a remote even my woman can understand: Two buttons! Looks sweet, jealous my non-existent listening room is.

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Which Rava (original/series II, color, upgraded, etc...) do you have???

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Mine's an original vlack with the upgraded DPL12 driver.

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nice pix

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Elias - EH isn't too bad, they have a tendency to be microphonic but we'll see. I probably wouldn't have bought those given the choice. But those Mullards are British made NOS's, primo tubes :)

Oldschool - I think I have the original, plain old Shiva version...light oak finish. The Shiva had the standard foam gasket around the front, while the DPL looked a little more "finished", right? I know the baskets were different, but I haven't pulled out the driver to check.

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Very nice Jim :)

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love the black and white shots

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Yes, he is in FL with his GF and he took the trip up

bingo

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