Good news indeed! There was a scare going around that the GU74b's were
getting scarce and that no more would be made.
Ron N6IE
www.N6IE.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <ac9s@mchsi.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:59 PM
Subject: [TenTec] 4cx800s - GU74b
>I was a little loose with the terminology when I posed the question on the
>Alpha forum. My 99 uses GU74bs and that is what Alpha evidently will be
>providing again. It is good news for those of us with an investment in
>amps using the tubes. By the way, when I think of a 1500 watt amp I think
>of something like an Alpha - 1500 watts all day long into a dummy load at
>Dayton - although an occasional RTTY contest is the closest any of us will
>likely come to that. There have been lots of fine amps in the last decade
>using the GU74b and hopefully with tubes available again the amps will
>remain viable for a long time.
>
> Keith
> AC9S
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