[Amps] 'Good engineering'

[Jim Thomson]

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:26:58 -0700
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Good Engineering.

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:29:56 -0700, "Jim Thomson" <Jim.thom at telus.net>
wrote:

>
>##  chinese 8877's are abt $550.00    For $100.00  more, you can buy
>a real tube. 

REPLY:

Should I go into my log and delete the 10,000 or so QSO's I have made
with my Chinese 8877 and do it again with a "real" tube?

73, Bill W6WRT

##  yes.  The chinese ..."real"  tube #1, would have given you another 6db.
Chinese "real" tube #2, would have given you another  9db.  Chinese real
tubes 1+2  are both $659.00.      http://www.rfparts.com/tubetran.html

##  Both can be rebuilt.   The  8877  is a ..'throwaway' .  Chinese  "real"
tubes  1+2 are a huge bang  for the buck, no floozy grids.  Now that's
good engineering. 

Later... Jim  VE7RF