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Subject: [AMPS] 3CX800
From: agray@voicenet.com (Alan Gray)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 05:23:07 -0400
Guess the same criticism could be leveled at the 4CX1500B for that matter.

Alan, W3BV


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Thompson <amps@txrx.demon.co.uk>
To: RFpower@radiodan.com <RFpower@radiodan.com>; Peter Chadwick
<Peter_Chadwick@mitel.com>; 'amps' <amps@contesting.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: [AMPS] 3CX800


>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Radiodan W7RF <radiodan@mediaone.net>
>To: Peter Chadwick <Peter_Chadwick@mitel.com>; 'amps'
><amps@contesting.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
>Date: 14 June 1999 19:50
>Subject: RE: [AMPS] 3CX800
>
>
>
>Peter G3RZP wrote:
>
>>
>> Are these tubes delicate? The local radio club has a 2m
>amp with one; the
>> standing current has dropped by a half, and the RF output
>is way down.
>> Suspicion is that it got over driven: the amp has no
>protection. Are they
>> easy to damage by overdrive?
>>
>
>
>Delicate?
>Only a 4 watt grid dissipation! Better not make ANY mistakes
>at all with
>this tube!
>
>It is one of today's answers to "how do I make it smaller
>and cheaper or get
>more profit out of it" amplifiers. Or "gee why can't I have
>a 2KW amplifier
>in the size of a cigar box?"
>
>-------------------
>
>Or could it be that it's designed to have low grid
>intercept?
>
>Steve
>
>
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