[Amps] Prepare GU74B

[Kees - pa7two]

Hi OM Morrie. 
 
Time for a serious answer:
 
Connect only the fillament for 6 hours or so and use household blower to cool the tube. Check with hot and cold fillaments for shorts.
Then connect the tube into the amplifier, raise the anode voltage by 25% every 4 hours till maximum. NOTE: gassy tubes will flash over!
After that push the PTT but no RF load for 15 minutes, followed by a 15 minutes cool down. Repeat. After that adust the IDLE current. 
Play at half power the first 4 hours. After that try full load.
 
I hope this helps, 
 
73, de Kees - pa7two 
 
 
 
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