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Re: [Amps] RF Parts OEM 3-500ZG's

To: Michael Tope <W4EF@dellroy.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] RF Parts OEM 3-500ZG's
From: Vic Rosenthal <vic@rakefet.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:19:42 -0700
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Michael Tope wrote:
> I just bought a used Ten-Tec Centurion on behalf of a friend. We 
> both were under the mis-informed belief that it would be equipped 
> with Eimac 3-500ZG's. Instead it has a matched pair of RF Parts 
> branded PRC manufactured 3-500ZG's. Anybody know the track 
> record of these tubes compared to the Amperex 3-500ZG (made 
> in France?) or the ones Eimac used to make?

Anecdotal evidence is that these tubes are excellent, and in fact better 
than later Eimac tubes which had weld problems.

-- 
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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