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[AMPS] RE:3CX vs 4CX3000

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Subject: [AMPS] RE:3CX vs 4CX3000
From: sm3lbn@swipnet.se (Hakan Ericsson)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 08:14:52 -0700
Hi folks
A couple if weeks ago this was going on.

Tom Rauch (W8JI) wrote:
> 
> Einar Persson wrote:
> 
> > Why has the 3CX3000 became so popular?
> 
> It is a stable tube, easy to use, rebuildable, available surplus, easy
> to mount, and very very clean.
> 
> > Why not use the 4CX3000 instead?
> 
> It requires a socket, bias and screen supply, and often more expensive.
> At times it is  less expensive to build a small IPA stage than to build
> a PROPERLY limited and regulated screen supply.
> 
> 73 Tom
You are right Tom. It is for some people to much work and money involved
to construct a conventional proper tetrod amp. So they build G2DAF !!! 

73's Hakan

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