{"id":679,"date":"2017-01-07T19:53:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T00:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=679"},"modified":"2017-01-07T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T01:00:00","slug":"this-guy-is-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"This guy is on drugs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure it is a nice amp and all&#8230; But, not 10K nice. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/s-l500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">10K for an amp that old? The seller of this thing must be on some harsh drugs!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>This two(2)3CX1500 tube, Alpha 77DX has been run thru Dick Byrd&#8217;s N4UQ, Alpha Hospital. Zero hours since upgrades. It has had all of the upgrades including large fuse holders, 7500 Volt rectifiers, 5000 Volt filter capacitor, larger transformer provides 4300 DC Volts in standby, wide spaced loading capacitors, new step start components and capacitor replacements on the filter and control boards. | eBay! &#8211; Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/ALPHA-77DX-77SX-HF-Amplifier-with-all-current-N4UQ-Dick-Byrd-upgrades-\/172470661533\" target=\"_blank\">ALPHA 77DX \/ 77SX HF Amplifier with all current N4UQ Dick Byrd upgrades | eBay<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is more than a new Alpha 9500 costs. A new one costs\u00a0$7,995.00&#8230; Sorry, but, that is just overpriced. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Edited to Add:<\/strong><\/span> I was looking at the pictures; not one internal picture. For 10K, I would want as many pictures of the insides as humanly possible, of RF deck and power supply section and a list of former owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure it is a nice amp and all&#8230; But, not 10K nice. \ud83d\ude2f This two(2)3CX1500 tube, Alpha 77DX has been run thru Dick Byrd&#8217;s N4UQ, Alpha Hospital. Zero hours since upgrades. It has had all of the upgrades including large fuse holders, 7500 Volt rectifiers, 5000 Volt filter capacitor, larger transformer provides 4300 DC<\/p>\n<p class=\"excert-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=679\" class=\"excerpt-more-link\" >Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This guy is on drugs!&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,135,134,4],"tags":[137,136],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","category-ebay","category-ebay-silliness","category-ham-radio","tag-alpha-amps","tag-ebay"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}