Vacuum tubes
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Phil Kane wrote:
Varian still sells them - their plant was in Utah the last time I
looked. These are "jugs" the size of wastebaskets with prices to
match. There are two tube rebuilders in California who serve the
broadcast transmitters world-wide as well. I also suspect that
klystrons, TWTs, and magnetrons are in that mix, but 6SN7-s are not.
Everything I tend now is solid state except for four transmitters that
use one each of Eimac 8990 for output. Econco (in Woodland, last I
check) still rebuilds those.
I haven't used anything smaller than 8990 for some years. I know they're
thousands of dollars new, but I haven't bought a new one in ages.
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John Higdon
+1 408 ANdrews 6-4400
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