[Amps] Amps Digest, Vol 231, Issue 12

Tue Mar 22 19:49:43 EDT 2022

 The WE 300B sells for $699.00 ea!  I'm afraid our RF tubes would be way out of reach for the average ham.
W0JX
    On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 07:41:04 PM EDT, amps-request at contesting.com <amps-request at contesting.com> wrote:  

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  1. Western Electric (Gary)
  2. Re: Western Electric (Leigh Turner)
  3. Re: Western Electric (Robert W5AJ)
  4. Re: Western Electric (Alek Petkovic)
  5. Re: Western Electric (w9oj at indy.rr.com)
  6. Re: Western Electric (Jim Brown)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:30:55 +0000
From: Gary <gary_mayfield at hotmail.com>
To: Amps group <amps at contesting.com>
Subject: [Amps] Western Electric
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In case someone hasn't seen this. Western Electric is looking to get back into the domestic tube market, and they are looking into what tubes to produce. You can see more and make suggestions here:

https://www.westernelectric.com/expand

73,
Joe kk0sd

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 09:38:27 +1030
From: "Leigh Turner" <invertech1 at bigpond.com>
To: "'Gary'" <gary_mayfield at hotmail.com>,    <amps at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Western Electric
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Unfortunately this explorative initiative here is skewed entirely towards the mainstream audiophile tube market?sadly not the ham radio transmitting tube market for 3-500Z, 572B, 811A, 3CX800A7, 3CX1500A7/ 8877, 4CX1000A, 4CX1500B, etc  ?

Reconstituting the tooling, materials, and knowhow to produce these Tx tubes to the former Eimac quality standard would be an overreaching bridge too far?.

Leigh

VK5KLT / VK5LT

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From: Amps <amps-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Gary
Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 9:01 AM
To: Amps group <amps at contesting.com>
Subject: [Amps] Western Electric

In case someone hasn't seen this. Western Electric is looking to get back into the domestic tube market, and they are looking into what tubes to produce. You can see more and make suggestions here:

 <https://www.westernelectric.com/expand> https://www.westernelectric.com/expand

73,

Joe kk0sd

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 18:20:49 -0500
From: Robert W5AJ <woodr90 at gmail.com>
To: Gary <gary_mayfield at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Amps] Western Electric
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Thanks Gary

I wrote in comment section 3-500z RF tube would be excellent
consideration.  My guess they are doing glass type tubes

73 Robert

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 5:31 PM Gary <gary_mayfield at hotmail.com> wrote:

> In case someone hasn't seen this. Western Electric is looking to get back
> into the domestic tube market, and they are looking into what tubes to
> produce. You can see more and make suggestions here:
>
> https://www.westernelectric.com/expand
>
> 73,
> Joe kk0sd
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:22:01 +0800
From: Alek Petkovic <vk6apk at bigpond.com>
To: amps at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Western Electric
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Summed it up beautifully there Leigh.

I clicked the link and my heart sank in the same way.

The reason, of course, is that the audio people seem to love the idea of 
paying premium prices, whereas we hams have a different mindset.

73, Alek, VK6APK

On 23/03/2022 7:08 am, Leigh Turner wrote:
> Unfortunately this explorative initiative here is skewed entirely towards the mainstream audiophile tube market?sadly not the ham radio transmitting tube market for 3-500Z, 572B, 811A, 3CX800A7, 3CX1500A7/ 8877, 4CX1000A, 4CX1500B, etc  ?
>
>  
>
> Reconstituting the tooling, materials, and knowhow to produce these Tx tubes to the former Eimac quality standard would be an overreaching bridge too far?.
>
>  
>
> Leigh
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> VK5KLT / VK5LT
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>  
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amps <amps-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Gary
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 9:01 AM
> To: Amps group <amps at contesting.com>
> Subject: [Amps] Western Electric
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>  
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> In case someone hasn't seen this. Western Electric is looking to get back into the domestic tube market, and they are looking into what tubes to produce. You can see more and make suggestions here:
>
>  
>
>  <https://www.westernelectric.com/expand> https://www.westernelectric.com/expand
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>  
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> 73,
>
> Joe kk0sd
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 19:36:09 -0400
From: <w9oj at indy.rr.com>
Cc: "'Amps group'" <amps at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Western Electric
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3-1000Z would be nice!

73 de Mike W9OJ

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From: Amps <amps-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Robert W5AJ
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 7:21 PM
To: Gary <gary_mayfield at hotmail.com>
Cc: Amps group <amps at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Western Electric

Thanks Gary

I wrote in comment section 3-500z RF tube would be excellent
consideration.  My guess they are doing glass type tubes

73 Robert

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 5:31 PM Gary <gary_mayfield at hotmail.com> wrote:

> In case someone hasn't seen this. Western Electric is looking to get 
> back into the domestic tube market, and they are looking into what 
> tubes to produce. You can see more and make suggestions here:
>
> https://www.westernelectric.com/expand
>
> 73,
> Joe kk0sd

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:40:40 -0700
From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: amps at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Western Electric
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On 3/22/2022 4:22 PM, Alek Petkovic wrote:
> the audio people seem to love the idea of paying premium prices

I'm a retired audio professional. It's not "audio people," it's the 
"high futility" lunatic fringe.

73, Jim K9YC

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