[AMPS] Dumb directly heated cathode amp operational questions

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Chris Tran GM3WOJ wrote:
>
>I'm feeling brave today and I'm going to disagree with you again, Rich !
>The standard Kenwood TL-922 has one of the worst cooling systems
>I've seen - far too little air movement, etc.. !
>Consequently, 922s are not very popular with contesters who like
>high duty cycles with loads of processing !
>
This could be a 50Hz/60Hz thing - blowers perform much more poorly on
50Hz.

73 from Ian G3SEK          Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
                          'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                           http://www.ifwtech.com/g3sek

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