[Amps] HV Diodes

[Jim Thomson]

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:40:41 -0400
From: Louis Parascondola via Amps <amps at contesting.com>
To: info at dedicatedrf.com, km1h at jeremy.qozzy.com
Cc: amps at contesting.com, manfred at ludens.cl
Subject: Re: [Amps] HV Diodes

##  Why alpha screws around with silly tube lineups over the years is beyond me. A buddy just bought their dual 4CX-1000 amp.
Why didn’t they just use a single 8877 like their 8877 auto tune amp ?   The 2500w SS amps will cost two arms and both legs. 
Gimme a single 3CX-3000A7 any day.  50w of drive = 1500w out.  100w = 2.5 kw    150w = 3.5 kw    200w = 5.2 kw
IMD is superb  at 5 kw out...  -59db pep.  Takes 45 secs to dial up pre-sets to change from the highest band to the lowest band. 
You cant blow the tube up..and its dead simple.   A single or dual  8877 is simple too.  A SS 1.5 kw  rtty  amp is not gonna be cheap.
Then toss in the  1.5 kw rated LP filters for each band,  RF deck,  pwr supply,  + 1.5 kw CCS  auto tuner.....so it doesn’t blow
its brains out  with a 2:1  swr, etc, ..and you can  see why its expensive. 

Jim  VE7RF 


we  have been waiting on that dual 8877 amp with roller inductor for some time now.  Many die hard hams would prefer that over solid state.



-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Simmonds <info at dedicatedrf.com>
To: Carl <km1h at jeremy.qozzy.com>
Cc: Amplifier Mailing List <amps at contesting.com>; Manfred Mornhinweg <manfred at ludens.cl>
Sent: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 8:38 pm
Subject: Re: [Amps] HV Diodes


Perhaps, yes. But regardless of how inexpensive the Chinese amps may be, 
at the end of the day they will still be Chinese amps, metaphorically 
speaking.

Exciting things to come in 2015 in the QRO solid state market. Trust me 
on this :)

Dan  KK3AN
>
>
> The Chinese have some serious amps but no US certification yet that Im 
> aware of. Once they get going watch out! They are already taking over 
> the tube business.
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>