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Subject: [AMPS] Bargain basement broadband tetrode amp
From: da_kang@hotmail.com (Jeff Wolf)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:37:52 GMT

I find the ZSAC to run approximately 75 mils at this operating point...  A 
little higher if you run the higher perveance flavors of the 4CX250 family.


Toll Free





>>Too low. The plate and screen voltages are OK, but the grid bias is too
>>negative for the recommended ZSAC of 100mA... which is *another* thing
>>that's important for linearity.



Tom Rauch wrote:
>
>>The 4CX250B runs up to 400 volts on the screen.
>>
>>I have run 2500 volts on the anode.
>>
>>Runs very well with 2200Kv on plate, 350V on screen and grid between -60
>>to -80V.
>
>What is the zero signal idling current of the tube anode at those
>voltages?



73 from Ian G3SEK          Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
                          'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                           http://www.ifwtech.com/g3sek


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