[Amps] Tube Prices

[R L Measures]

On Jul 30, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Tom W8JI wrote:

>> in. We should blame ourselves for not wanting to pay the
>> high prices for better quality north american or European
>> brands of tubes which were available all along.
>
> Actually a good bit of the blame falls on Richardson's
> Electronics and their policy of absorbing all the small
> manufacturers and dealers, and the poor decision by Eimac to
> allow a outright competitor to be the sole distributor of
> Eimac tubes.
>
> The Justice Department should have stopped all the buy-ups
> before they ruined the tube market prematurely. Eimac should
> have kept some independent distributors.

Good point, Tom.  As I understand it the DOJ came close to going  
after Eddie Ricardson and Eimac under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
>
> China would have come along anyway, Richardson's just sped
> the process up by inflating prices.
>
> 73 Tom
>
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