A couple of things occur to me to explain their continuing popularity:
-- tubes are instant-on, almost immortal, and not that expensive to replace.
-- tank circuit is capable of matching fairly severe mismatches, such as an
80-meter CW dipole up in the phone band. My impression is that many newer
amps won't do that.
73, Pete N4ZR
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