[Amps] Marshall 811A's and message from RF Parts

[George]

There once was a Marshall Electronics (not the sound people) electronics 
distributor in Long Island, NY
The competed with Arrow, Hamilton Avnet, Summit, and other distributors. 
I don't know if they are the same
as who your looking for.

73,
George, K4GVT


jeremy-ca wrote:
> I received the following from Merit Arnold, W6NQ, of RF Parts  with 
> clarification info.
>
> It still leaves questions open on the Marshalls that may never be answered. 
> Its been my experience that JAN boxes have contract # and dates on them at a 
> minimum. Also the tubes would be date coded.
>
> Has anyone info on who Marshall is?
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
>
>
> Hello Carl:
> Just a note regarding a few tubes being sold by RFP that you have questions
> on.
> The tubes we have in stock under the "Marshall" name are JAN surplus,
> Marshall Electronics, made in USA on boxes.
> No address.  No date info.
> The tubes look like the traditional US design with horizontal fins on
> plates, etc.
> We also have the Cetron tubes, also JAN, dated 5/88 from Richardson.
> Haven't had any reliability issues with either.
>
> By the way, the last time we bought Cetron 572B was in 1988-89.
> The last production run they had was experiencing a DOA of about 15%
> due to broken filaments (admitted by Richardson).
> The last quote at that time was $75 each in lots of 1000, without the
> ability to schedule.
> So we dropped them as a source, and stayed out of the 572B business until
> better
> Chinese/Russian tubes came along at affordable prices.
>
> Regards,
> Merit, W6NQ
>
>
>
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