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Subject: [Amps] al80a
From: stevek@jmr.com (Steve Katz)
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:08:23 -0700


> Zero grid-fil resistrance incicates a bent filanment helix touching the 
> grid.  (Photo in September, 1990 *QST*, and on my Web site)  Either the 
> amplifier has been operated aeronautical mobile in an acrobatic airplane 
> or the filament was bent by  EM force as the result of an intermittent 
> oscillation condition c. 155MHz.   However, grid-fil shorted tubes 
> usually draw high anode current.   // Does this AL-80A have 
> "neutralization" ?  What is the measured resistance of the vhf suppressor 
> resistor?
> 
> //I think he meant "infinite resistance," not "no resistance," since he
> later posted that the tube anode is turning red, and he used a 100K Ohm
> meter to make the measurement.  -WB2WIK/6
> 
> 
> cheers, Carl
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> -  R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K, 
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