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Subject: [AMPS] another book about tube amplifiers
From: jtml@lanl.gov (John T. M. Lyles)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:38:24 -0600
POWER VACUUM TUBES HANDBOOK, Second Edition - 1999, by Jerry 
Whitaker, CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-1345-7.

It's not cheap, but maybe you can find it second hand. 710 pages, 
lots of recycled material from his articles in Broadcast Engineering 
magazine and his other book, McGraw Hill's RADIO FREQUENCY 
TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS: DESIGN AND OPERATION. It does a pretty good 
'basic' job summarizing the basics of most gridded and linear beam 
tubes, crossed field and velocity modulation included. Covers water 
cooling, designing VHF cavity amplifiers, 'regular' tube amplifier 
circuits and classes, reliability concerns, microwave systems, and so 
forth. The organization is lacking foundation in some chapters but 
hey, there aren't too many new books about power tubes being 
published, with the demise of Care and Feeding. You still need the 
basics like Terman's Radio Engineering, SSB Principles, and Bill 
Orr's Handbooks. And I still re-read Herr Dittichs' out of print 
Tubes for RF Heating, from the Philips Company.

73
John
K5PRO

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