I recently acquired a SB-230 thinking the tube was probably bad with an idea of
doing a GI7B project. To my surprise the amp puts out 650 watts plus on my peak
reading wattmeter on SSB 80/40 Meters with 100 W drive..
On the bands from 20 and up the power output drops. 20 Meters is about 550, 15
meters about 350-400 and I have not tried 10m.
I recapped PS, rebuilt tube grid circuit and repaired some bad soldering and
out of tolerance parts, replaced grid bypass capacitors, removed entire tank
circuit and band switch. Cleaned bandswitch and cleaned/resoldered all
connections.
Still power on higher bands drop as above.
Any experts on this amp out there who might have an idea what might be going
on. Is this a sign of a weak tube? Since I get so much power output on 80/40M
I would think the tube must still have some life in it.
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