[Amps] "Tubes 201" - How Vacuum Tubes Really Work

[Peter Chadwick]

Karl Arne said:
>I have a 6AK5/6J6 cascode 2m converter (SM5VL design) hidden somewhere in the more ancient layers of the "junk-box". It may be interesting to evaluate this converter using modern instrumentation and methods and verify the difference
between one or two sections.<


Might be instructive to see good (or otherwise!) the strong signal performance is, too. The first solid state converters, even with FETS, were pretty awful in comparison to Nuvistors.
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Peter G3RZP