[Amps] 3rd ed. Eimac's "Care and Feeding of Power Grid

[Jim Thomson]

Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:06:50 -0800
From: Colin Lamb <k7fm at teleport.com>
To: amps at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] 3rd ed. Eimac's "Care and Feeding of Power Grid
Tubes"

Just got my 1974 buyers guide off the shelf.  It has some transformers 
numbers that I will probably save.  The 3-500Z tube sells brand new from 
Eimac for $37.


Colin K7FM

###  LOL.  I was 18 yrs old back in 1974.  I would listen to these contester folks
on 75m at night, who were always buying  replacement  SB-220 plate xfmrs....
which back in 1974, were $35.00   each.   I forget what a new Eimac  8877 was,
but it was semi affordable.  I bought brand spanky new Eimac  4-1000s  for
$40.00  each, back in 1976.   Back then, they were  everywhere, and readily 
available.   A Ham-2  rotor, new was $199.00    A used  Hygain 204BA
was aprx  $150.00

##  A new pair of 572B tubes for a SB-200  was aprx  $60.00 
My brand new 48 ft self support tower was $225.00  back in
1976.  4x4x4  concrete block was another $115.00 
Aluminum 3 inch OD irrigation pipe was  74 cents a foot. It came
in  20-30-40 ft lengths.  I bought 36 ft of it..and they delivered it for free.
They took a 40 ft length, lopped 4 ft off one end, and  only charged  me
for 36 ft.  Instant  36 ft boom, no splices.  Al tubing for eles was dirt cheap,
like the 6061-T6 variety. 

##  Bought small prop pitchs  for $75.00  each.   A 10 kva hypersil
pole pig was  $75.00  .   The big ticket items
were my new drake C line + mating L4B amp..back in 1977.  $3400.00
for the drake gear.  My new 1977 Honda civic  was $3750.00 
Bought my first home for $40 K , back in 1979. 

Those were good times. 

Jim  VE7RF