[Amps] grounding grids

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 30 08:30:57 PDT 2009


ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

>> How then would you account for the reduced IM products of a tube operated in
>> GG verses the same tube operated in a standard grid driven configuration?

REPLY:

Another possible reason for reduced IMD is the added grid resistor smoothes out
the load over the RF driving cycle, in the sense of a "swamping" resistor,
although in series instead of parallel.

73, Bill W6WRT


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