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I agree with the filter solution. I power my shop with inverters and have the same problem with my AM radio and a TV I use. The larger filters seem to do a pretty good job if you are far enough from the inverter itself, but you may still have a little hash on the AM bands as they are prone to pick u...

If it's not a power supply problem(leaky cap) then i would look for a leaky wave-shape cap some where around the output , usually a IC in newer TV's or maybe even the output itself. If the problem seems to be a heat related one you might try some component cooler to see if the symptoms change. Somet...

Your output current may be too low, magneto's are not especially known for higher current levels.

They do have HV diodes to get the pulsed DC voltages for the magnatron, but the tubes are still there. The tube is all metal except for the seal and insulator at the filament ends. I have several of them still sitting on the shelf from my old repair shop and i'll promise you they are common triodes ...

The magnatron in a microwave is nothing more than a electron tube just like the ones used back years ago in electronics. Usually they fail because of overheating and become gassy. The tube used is usually a triode having only three active elements. As for the cavity, when i serviced ovens, you had a...

These days inverters are everywhere. You can pick them up at Wal-Mart starting at 140W to 600W for less than sixty-dollars. They do a pretty good job on most computers and have low-voltage shut down built in. There modified-sign wave and can introduce some noise in analog equipment unless you use fi...

More information is needed on the use of this wire before you can determine it's size. When it comes to voltage, wire size is not as inportant as it is if you were using high current. Fairly small conductors will carry high voltages very well as long as current levels are low.

There is only one high voltage winding on most flyback transformers. This is the output winding that goes to the doubler or tripler on modern TV's or monitors. The primary winding you want will be the one with the most resistance across it. TV receivers use the other windings to power other circuits...

Just noticed you said you were using a DSS phone. There are linear amps for sale surplus for cell phone use that might cover your frequency requirments. I have seen some of them listed in N&V from time to time. Still, you may not have the drive required to get full output.

As far as CB is concerned, I've been in the business for 30 years and you can easily make contacts at distances of hundreds of miles with only three watts,which was all that was legal back in the 60's when I first used CB. We didn,t use skip, it was just ground wave communication when the skip was o...

Those "so-called" cell phone boosters don't hardly work as well as they show them on TV. From tests I have read about and done myself, about the most you can expect to get is one bar more of signal on most phones. But if you are really in a bad signal area, one bar might mean the differenc...