[Amps] 813 efficiency

Rob Atkinson ranchorobbo at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 10:21:54 EST 2013


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Bill Turner <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The drawback now is price, about $5k brand new. If they can cut that in
> half and up the power to the legal limit, you can pretty much say goodbye
> to tube type amps. Not going to happen soon but it will happen.
>

Maybe in the monied qrm-tester dx-chaser plug and play ham radio world
but not everywhere.

Not everyone is raptured by here-today gone-tomorrow FETs and future
unobtainium microchip control circuitry in those things.

In certain quarters it was said AM is dead 40 years ago.  Predictions
of ham tube rig death are greatly exaggerated.

73

Rob
K5UJ


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