[TenTec] 4cx800s - GU74b

Duane Calvin ac5aa1 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 23:41:15 EST 2008


Sure glad I bought a spare pair from Tom Hix before he shuffled off.

   73, Duane

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Duane C.

On Dec 19, 2008, at 2:59 PM, ac9s at mchsi.com wrote:

> 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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