- 1. [Amps] RE : boonton 59 (score: 1)
- Author: "hermans" <on4kj@skynet.be>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:42:58 -0000
- Carl, The tube is what we called a "gland" (hope I remember well) quite a time ago we used that "gland" in UHF triode preamplifiers. Probably difficult to find in a industrial environnement. A specia
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- 2. Re: [Amps] RE : boonton 59 (score: 1)
- Author: Steve Katz <stevek@jmr.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:55:09 -0800
- If nobody already posted the info (didn't read all the replies) the tube used is a type 955, and it's not very rare. I see them all the time and have one spare for my model 59... -WB2WIK/6 Carl, The
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- 3. Re: [Amps] RE : boonton 59 (score: 1)
- Author: Colin Lamb <k7fm@teleport.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:11:42 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
- The Boonton uses a tube we call an "acorn" tube. It is a 955 triode. Still plentiful and used in a few pieces of unretired test equipment. Also used in some of the early WWII uhf equipment. The Model
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- 4. Re: [Amps] RE : boonton 59 (score: 1)
- Author: Colin Lamb <k7fm@teleport.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:31:57 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
- For those of you interested in acorn tubes, you should visit http://www.antiquewireless.org/otb/acorntube.htm When I was a kid, I built a pocket radio using a 959 acorn tube, with a 1.5 volt filament
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- 5. Re: [Amps] RE : boonton 59 (score: 1)
- Author: w6ah@comcast.net
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:34:30 +0000
- Jos the price of Boonton 59s fluctuate between a range of 50 to 130 US Dollars on EBay. It looks like Carl snagged himself a steal if he picked up the last one auctioned there. A couple of months ago
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