[Amps] 3CX1500D7 quote

[DAVE WHITE]

"Id take an 8877 over a Ruskie any day"I guess it depends on price.  In my experience the original Russian tubes were pretty good, though obviously not as good as Eimac tubes.  However, if you can buy GS35Bs for the price of a 8877 (and that was the price in Europe last time I looked, a few years ago)......

I've heard a few bad reports of Russian tubes recently. The original ones we got in the early 1990s were made for military use, so had to be to a certain standard. The new ones appear increasingly to be built to a price.

I'd certainly avoid the Chinese tubes, since these are just churned out for export and many I have seen have been of questionalble quality.

The GS35Bs sold like hot cakes in Germany when they first became known to European VHF/UHF amateurs via articles in Dubus etc.  I remember buying a huge box full of them at Weinheim in about 1994-ish.  They then sat around in my shack for several years until I realised that I'd never use them, then I took them back to the same fleamarket a couple of years later and sold them for five times the price.  Now I wish I'd kept them, of course! Isn't that always the way? :-)

But think on.....one day Eimac will go the same way as all the other manufacturing sector firms that disappeared due to cheaper, often inferior foreign competition, and then I think we'd be sorry.  Famous, long-established names are disappearing from Britain like you wouldn't believe.

cheers

Dave G0OIL


--- On Thu, 8/1/09, Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
From: Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] 3CX1500D7 quote
To: "Tony Brock-Fisher" <barockteer at aol.com>, Amps at contesting.com
Date: Thursday, 8 January, 2009, 3:30 AM

Id take an 8877 over a Ruskie any day if I was doing a swap.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Brock-Fisher" <barockteer at aol.com>
To: <Amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] 3CX1500D7 quote


> OK, so how about 3CX1200A7 at $1139? ('Special Price' at RF Parts)
> 
> ...or, a GS-35B at $129 ('Buy It Now') !!
> 
> (No wonder the AL-1200's are getting retubed Russian style!)
> 
> -Tony, K1KP
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