At 10:03 PM 10/7/99 -0400, Bill Fuqua wrote:
>I have not seen it either. I have seen the EIMAC ad however. Also an
>earlier ad with a hole melted in the anode of a 250TH I think.
>If no one on this list has seen a hole sucked in the side of
>a tube I would just write it off to mythology.
I can't speak for real RF power tubes, but I melted a 6KD6 sweep tube in my
old Yaesu FTDX-560 that way. Clear evidence of melted glass, followed by
an implosion, leaving a window in the envelope.
73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com
Sometimes a tower is just a tower
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