[TenTec] 4cx800s - GU74b

Ron Castro ronc at sonic.net
Fri Dec 19 17:27:28 EST 2008


Good news indeed!  There was a scare going around that the GU74b's were 
getting scarce and that no more would be made.

         Ron  N6IE
      www.N6IE.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ac9s at mchsi.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:59 PM
Subject: [TenTec] 4cx800s - GU74b


>I was a little loose with the terminology when I posed the question on the 
>Alpha forum.  My 99 uses GU74bs and that is what Alpha evidently will be 
>providing again.  It is good news for those of us with an investment in 
>amps using the tubes.  By the way, when I think of a 1500 watt amp I think 
>of something like an Alpha - 1500 watts all day long into a dummy load at 
>Dayton - although an occasional RTTY contest is the closest any of us will 
>likely come to that.  There have been lots of fine amps in the last decade 
>using the GU74b and hopefully with tubes available again the amps will 
>remain viable for a long time.
>
> Keith
> AC9S
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