[Amps] Gassy Tubes/Technology Museum looking for artifacts

[Pat Barthelow]

Hi Carl, and group:

One, the 807, comes in a  metal envelope, liquid cooled configuration...(:>) 
  ....rumored to  add DBs to signal reports, and bring in larger crowds to 
antenna parties.

A lot of the old ham vernacular and culture is fading into the ether these 
days...
Same phenomenon, that whistling CQ in a crowd of techhie strangers, usually, 
  no longer  gets the knowing smiles of the ham operators among them....   
(;>)

http://www.smecc.org   has a lot of nice technology history bytes, and is 
looking for more..

73,  Pat

>From: "jeremy-ca" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
>To: "Pat Barthelow" <aa6eg at hotmail.com>,<amps at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [Amps] Gassy Tubes/Technology Museum looking for artifacts
>
>Beside filament voltage and base configuration?  I do know of one other 
>that was very important to amp builders of the era. Want to take a shot at 
>it?
>
>Carl
>KM1H
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Barthelow" <aa6eg at hotmail.com>
>To: <amps at contesting.com>
>Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:39 AM
>Subject: [Amps] Gassy Tubes/Technology Museum looking for artifacts
>
>
>>Folks:
>>
>>I grew up in the early era of Mr. Wizard, Renwal Electrostatic Generators, 
>>  crystal Radios, and Heathkits.   I  know the TWO distinct differences 
>>between an 807 and a 1625 tube.   I also know an ARC- 5  when I see one. I 
>>suspect many here know these artifacts of Technology history, too.
>>
>>While looking for information about residual gas in transmitting tubes, I 
>>found this article, a very good read:
>>
>>http://www.smecc.org/r__m__r__residual_gases.htm
>>
>>After reading this, I looked to the root source of the article and found 
>>SMECC ,
>>
>>http://www.smecc.org
>>
>>A great organization that is described below.   Please check it out, and
>>look through your junk boxes to see what yoiu can cotribute to their
>>Mission:
                                           SMECC:
>>Our
>>Mission:
>>Preserving Engineering, Communications and Computation History
>>We seek the three dimensional artifacts, the papers and thoughts  of those
>>who pioneered the technology.
>>
>>Sincerely, Pat Barthelow     aa6eg at hotmail.com
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