[Amps] Econco closing

[Douglas L]

Tube prices have already skyrocketed. Even the Chinese makers have caught on to the fact that they can charge more.
  Econco’s main business was rebuilding tubes for broadcasters. Most AM/FM broadcasters got rid of their tube transmitters years ago.
In most cases the power savings alone were enough to pay for the cost of a new solid state transmitter.
  Eimac is now a minor shrinking division of CPI. I’d not be surprised to see them soon shut down.  I think Burle (the former tube division of RCA) is still making a few tube types in Pennsylvania, probably for military contracts.
The last I checked Burle was still making the 8122 tubes that I use in my National NCL-2000’s. The 8122 was often used as the driver tube in higher power shipboard transmitters.
73,
Doug/ WA1TUT