Where do they sell these tubes? eBay? Retail? How much for a 300B?
Thanks, 73, Jim W7RY
On 3/23/2022 9:44 AM, Jim W7RY wrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:28 PM Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP
<k2vco.vic@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not the historical Western Electric. Like many other well-known
brand names, the name and logo were sold.
Wikipedia says "As of 2013, the stylized Western Electric brand name
survives as the trademark of the Western Electric Export
Corporation, a
privately owned high-end audio company in Rossville, Georgia."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Electric>
73,
Victor, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
CWops #5
Formerly K2VCO
https://www.qsl.net/k2vco/
On 23/03/2022 1:22, Alek Petkovic wrote:
> Summed it up beautifully there Leigh.
>
> I clicked the link and my heart sank in the same way.
>
> The reason, of course, is that the audio people seem to love the
idea of
> paying premium prices, whereas we hams have a different mindset.
>
> 73, Alek, VK6APK
>
> On 23/03/2022 7:08 am, Leigh Turner wrote:
>> Unfortunately this explorative initiative here is skewed entirely
>> towards the mainstream audiophile tube market…sadly not the ham
radio
>> transmitting tube market for 3-500Z, 572B, 811A, 3CX800A7,
3CX1500A7/
>> 8877, 4CX1000A, 4CX1500B, etc ☹
>>
>>
>> Reconstituting the tooling, materials, and knowhow to produce
these Tx
>> tubes to the former Eimac quality standard would be an
overreaching
>> bridge too far….
>>
>>
>> Leigh
>>
>> VK5KLT / VK5LT
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Amps <amps-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Gary
>> Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 9:01 AM
>> To: Amps group <amps@contesting.com>
>> Subject: [Amps] Western Electric
>>
>>
>> In case someone hasn't seen this. Western Electric is looking
to get
>> back into the domestic tube market, and they are looking into what
>> tubes to produce. You can see more and make suggestions here:
>>
>>
>> <https://www.westernelectric.com/expand>
>> https://www.westernelectric.com/expand
>>
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Joe kk0sd
>>
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