Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:06:50 -0800
From: Colin Lamb <k7fm@teleport.com>
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] 3rd ed. Eimac's "Care and Feeding of Power Grid
Tubes"
Just got my 1974 buyers guide off the shelf. It has some transformers
numbers that I will probably save. The 3-500Z tube sells brand new from
Eimac for $37.
Colin K7FM
### LOL. I was 18 yrs old back in 1974. I would listen to these
contester folks
on 75m at night, who were always buying replacement SB-220 plate
xfmrs....
which back in 1974, were $35.00 each. I forget what a new Eimac 8877
was,
but it was semi affordable. I bought brand spanky new Eimac 4-1000s for
$40.00 each, back in 1976. Back then, they were everywhere, and
readily
available. A Ham-2 rotor, new was $199.00 A used Hygain 204BA
was aprx $150.00
## A new pair of 572B tubes for a SB-200 was aprx $60.00
My brand new 48 ft self support tower was $225.00 back in
1976. 4x4x4 concrete block was another $115.00
Aluminum 3 inch OD irrigation pipe was 74 cents a foot. It came
in 20-30-40 ft lengths. I bought 36 ft of it..and they delivered it for
free.
They took a 40 ft length, lopped 4 ft off one end, and only charged me
for 36 ft. Instant 36 ft boom, no splices. Al tubing for eles was dirt
cheap,
like the 6061-T6 variety.
## Bought small prop pitchs for $75.00 each. A 10 kva hypersil
pole pig was $75.00 . The big ticket items
were my new drake C line + mating L4B amp..back in 1977. $3400.00
for the drake gear. My new 1977 Honda civic was $3750.00
Bought my first home for $40 K , back in 1979.
Those were good times.
Jim VE7RF