10 Mar
2010
10 Mar
'10
2:45 a.m.
This Thursday Barrie Gilbert is giving a talk at my local ham club TERAC, and promises to
bring some rare and exotic tubes. Im looking forward to it, and I will report the rare
stuff he brings to the talk. We are all encouraged to bring our favorite tubes, I'm
sure there will be some Emiac tubes there. Im bringing a 3BP1, a 3" CRT. I got a
pair of these new, in the original sealed government boxes from 1945. When I opened them,
I swear the air inside was from 1945, I felt like Indiana Jones opening a tomb.
(My project is a scope clock)
Randy
From: rtellason at verizon.net
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Tubes (was OT: Televisions)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:20:55 -0500
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 08:37:43 pm William Donzelli wrote:
The last time I saw some of those big jugs was last October, while visiting a
friend (somewhat older than I am, in his late sixties or early seventies),
and who knew them well. He had an assortment of them around, and was
talking to me about a bunch of them being destined for some sort of a display
exhibit...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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M Dakin
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Emic still
rules the high power RF world, as there is not a semiconductor
substitution for a TV / Radio transmitter final output yet.
No - modern high power transmitters use redundant hot-swappable
amplifier modules in quantity. A few manuafacturers may still make
tube based designs, but they are getting long in the tooth.
Hell, even Eimac is pretty much gone.
--
Will