"Id take an 8877 over a Ruskie any day"I guess it depends on price. In my
experience the original Russian tubes were pretty good, though obviously not as
good as Eimac tubes. However, if you can buy GS35Bs for the price of a 8877
(and that was the price in Europe last time I looked, a few years ago)......
I've heard a few bad reports of Russian tubes recently. The original ones we
got in the early 1990s were made for military use, so had to be to a certain
standard. The new ones appear increasingly to be built to a price.
I'd certainly avoid the Chinese tubes, since these are just churned out for
export and many I have seen have been of questionalble quality.
The GS35Bs sold like hot cakes in Germany when they first became known to
European VHF/UHF amateurs via articles in Dubus etc. I remember buying a huge
box full of them at Weinheim in about 1994-ish. They then sat around in my
shack for several years until I realised that I'd never use them, then I took
them back to the same fleamarket a couple of years later and sold them for five
times the price. Now I wish I'd kept them, of course! Isn't that always the
way? :-)
But think on.....one day Eimac will go the same way as all the other
manufacturing sector firms that disappeared due to cheaper, often inferior
foreign competition, and then I think we'd be sorry. Famous, long-established
names are disappearing from Britain like you wouldn't believe.
cheers
Dave G0OIL
--- On Thu, 8/1/09, Carl <km1h@jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
From: Carl <km1h@jeremy.mv.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] 3CX1500D7 quote
To: "Tony Brock-Fisher" <barockteer@aol.com>, Amps@contesting.com
Date: Thursday, 8 January, 2009, 3:30 AM
Id take an 8877 over a Ruskie any day if I was doing a swap.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Brock-Fisher" <barockteer@aol.com>
To: <Amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] 3CX1500D7 quote
> OK, so how about 3CX1200A7 at $1139? ('Special Price' at RF Parts)
>
> ...or, a GS-35B at $129 ('Buy It Now') !!
>
> (No wonder the AL-1200's are getting retubed Russian style!)
>
> -Tony, K1KP
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