[Amps] Sweep tubes was: Re: Super buy on the Bay!

[Gary Smith]

I remember a Dentron I think it was that 
used four 6LQ6. I was a new ham & 
apparently wasn't loading & tuning properly 
and kept frying the tubes. I'd bring them 
back to Radio Shack for exchange & after 
the third trip I wasn't allowed back in the 
store for a tube replacement anymore.

Gary
KA1J

> Yeah, I remember taking back a final out of a Yaesu FTDX-560 that had one side of the envelope melted through - no problem...
> 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> 
> At 02:25 PM 2/3/2006, Phil Clements wrote:
> > 
> >> Here's another that does have interior pictures.
> >
> >Using TV sweep tubes was not such a bad idea years ago. Radio Shack had a
> >no-questions-asked free replacement guarantee on their tubes; sort of like
> >Sears on their tools.
> >
> >(((73)))
> >Phil, K5PC
> >
> >
> >
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