[Amps] Triode vs Tetrode Amp

[Peter Voelpel]

What tetrode people do you think of?
The tetrodes in Europe are specifified commercially and are typically -50db
down or better on 3rd order IMD.

73
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Tom W8JI

2.) The tetrodes, when we cut through the advertising hyperbole, had worse
IM performance than Eimac triodes. The trick the manufacturers used was
Eimac spec'd the tubes for worse case IM using the commercial dB below one
tone of two equal tones, while the tetrode people used dB below PEP.