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Old February 6th 04, 06:23 AM
Eddie Haskel
 
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look at (and copy) the final circuit from a BE-5A (broadcast electronics) FM
transmitter.It's very simple and very stable too. It likes about 200 watts
of drive from a IPA. Will run nicely with 5000 volts at about 1 amp on the
plate. In the BE transmitter the tube sits in a cavity, with the plate being
slide tuned. A coupling loop sits close to the tube....Eddie

"Onno de Vries." wrote in message
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My name is Onno de Vries and i'm living in the Netherland and building
big amps is my hobby.
I just bought a 4CX 5000A on a radio market here for a good price (180
Euro) including socket.
Becourse the price was so good i took the challenge to build a 88-108
Mhz final from it.
After some experimenting i found out that the anode resonator a a bit
of a problem course of the high cappacity of the tube.
I try to do it with a double output coil (together Almost a half wave)
wich you see in manny designs for 144 Mhz amateur amps using for
example the russian tube GU84.
This works but it has a terrible efficiency,about 25%.
I hope that somebody can give me some Info about making a good and
high efficiend tank with this kind of tube.


Greetings.....Onno