Its a mostly waste of time as built. A little more work and it could be
useful to do emissions tests as well as proper (safe) gettering.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo@gmail.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:13 AM
Subject: [Amps] April QST article on RF power tube test stand
> Has anyone read the article in QST on building a test setup for RF
> power tubes (3-500 and 8877 in the article) for gettering tubes of
> unknown status?
>
> Seems to me like a lot of work when, if you have an amp that uses a
> tube you want to check out, you can just put a variac in the line to
> the plate transformer primary and pretty much have what they built
> from scratch.
>
>
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
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