"GPS" wrote in message
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Honestly, it's because there is no market here for them. Good old
faded memories, people forget the reason why tube radios stopped being
made.. and the answer is simple... transistor radios were superior in
every possible way, more reliable, less drift, didn't break down as
much, more portable, and cheaper to build.

If there was a market for tube radios, they would still be made
somewhere.


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Transistor radios began taking a significant share of the market only after
they got either 1) significantly smaller or 2) significantly cheaper than
tube radios.

In reality, good tube SW sets were, and still could be, better than solid
state sets. This was particularly true of consumer grade sets that had lousy
intermod and overload specs (I've had plenty of mid-60's to 80's consumer
grade SW radios that not only received a given SW station in multiple spots
on the dial, but also received FM radio and TV signals on the SW bands
(needless to say, they were NOT copyable.)

I'll grant they were more portable, and became much cheaper to build, but as
for build QUALITY, that wasn't so good, unless you had something like a
Royal 7000 or something higher grade like a Kenwood or Icom or Yaesu. SS SW
radios drifted as bad as any tube set, but for a slightly different reason.
It still had to do with heat, but since the radio itself didn't generate
much, external heat was the culprit. Even the venerable Superadio series is
very prone to drift with just the temperature extremes between night and
day.