On 2/23/2013 5:19 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:01:55 -0500, Eddy wrote:
It absolutely gobsmacks me how some guys in this hobby would rather whip-out the
ol' VISA card & spend literally HUNDREDS on power amplifier tubes, when the
lowly ol' 813---paired with some twins, of course!---will do the job as well, and
at an absolute FRACTION of the price...
REPLY:
To get the plate dissipation of a single 8877 would take 12 813s.
Would you put them all in a row? Or a matrix of 3x4? Or 6x2?
Or maybe in a circle? Can't wait to hear. :-)This reminds me of a
conversation I had on
This reminds me of a conversation I had on 40 late one evening a bit
over a year ago. Time and age being what they are, the specifics are in
the haze. I think he was down in Georgia or at least one of those states
down there. He had one whale of a signal and when I commented on it he
told me about his amp. It was either 6 or 8, 813s and he was pushing
them hard. IIRC he used it on 75 and 40.
I never did find out how he had them configured, but just trying to
visualize that puts my mind into overload, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't
in a line.<:-))
Apparently he had a bunch of them and figured, Why not" or he was just
good at telling stories.
73
Roger (K8RI)
Bill, W6WRT
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