[AMPS] a sticky issue.

[Ian White, G3SEK]

measures wrote:
>With a tetrode, one tunes/loads for a specified screen current when the 
>tank is resonant.  Heavier loading =s less screen current.  In practice, 
>this proceedure is close enough to simply tuning for max. relative output 
>-- as with a g-g triode.  //  Burning up a tetrode's screen from 
>mistuning is unlikely because screen supply power transformers usually 
>have fast-acting fuses in the primary.  
>
Can anyone think of a *worse* way to protect the screen of a tetrode?

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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