[Amps] stability of amps

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Tue Sep 25 12:00:29 EDT 2007


> Looking at the issue pragmatically, if Carl and Lou are 
> converting amplifiers that satisfy their customers, isn't 
> that good enough?  Perhaps the debate about whether or not 
> it is good engineering is no longer relevant.

Of course, and everyone agrees on that point.

The problem is when people try to rewrite good engineering 
or science or badmouth others based on some esoteric lucky 
design.

The fact is a 572B is a lousy tube at ten meters, let alone 
VHF. If it works in a particular recipe then that's fine. No 
problem. Nails work fine for cotter keys in some 
applications.

That doesn't change the fact it is a poor tube choice.

73 Tom





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