POWER VACUUM TUBES HANDBOOK, Second Edition - 1999, by Jerry
Whitaker, CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-1345-7.
It's not cheap, but maybe you can find it second hand. 710 pages,
lots of recycled material from his articles in Broadcast Engineering
magazine and his other book, McGraw Hill's RADIO FREQUENCY
TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS: DESIGN AND OPERATION. It does a pretty good
'basic' job summarizing the basics of most gridded and linear beam
tubes, crossed field and velocity modulation included. Covers water
cooling, designing VHF cavity amplifiers, 'regular' tube amplifier
circuits and classes, reliability concerns, microwave systems, and so
forth. The organization is lacking foundation in some chapters but
hey, there aren't too many new books about power tubes being
published, with the demise of Care and Feeding. You still need the
basics like Terman's Radio Engineering, SSB Principles, and Bill
Orr's Handbooks. And I still re-read Herr Dittichs' out of print
Tubes for RF Heating, from the Philips Company.
73
John
K5PRO
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