I just found several 829B tubes - believe it or not in my garage - I

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So can someone tell me what they would have been used for?
Something tells me they're a VHF power tube.

Any application as a one-tube QRP rig of any sort? Any stories
about using them in the past? I've built a lot of little rigs over the
years, but never knew about the 829


The datasheet is he

http://www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/f...049/8/829B.pdf

A lot of The Radio Amateur's Handbooks of the '50s and '60s had 892B
projects in them. The 1953 edition, immediately to my left as I write this,
has "A 100-Watt RF Amplifier for 50 and 144 Mc." on page 405. It runs
push-pull class-C, up to 120 Watts CW or FM, and 100 Watts AM.

And the following fellow has gone to an awful lot of trouble to use two
829Bs in parallel single-ended triode mode in a stereo amplifier:

http://www.pmillett.addr.com/829b_amplifier.htm