[Amps] Western Electric / elusive dreams

[Leigh Turner]

Yes Alek such an announcement of the modern day reintroduction of these venerable US made Tx tubes would only occur in our dreams.....  ☹

And Yes Mike, a 3-1000Z would be the icing on the cake!

73

Leigh
VK5KLT / VK5LT

-----Original Message-----
From: Amps <amps-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Alek Petkovic
Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 9:52 AM
To: amps at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Western Electric

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
>
> VK5KLT / VK5LT
>
>  
> -----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
>
> 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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