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[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

d4mned tube 'philes

.:swat! swat!:. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

I've never used any tube amps for audio, Jack, but I own currently and have used in the past tube amps for cb radio. If the differences in quality for audio are along the same lines as the differences in tube vs. solid state for cb radio I truly understand your love for them. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[jujumantb 10+ year member]

I've never used any tube amps for audio, Jack, but I own currently and have used in the past tube amps for cb radio. If the differences in quality for audio are along the same lines as the differences in tube vs. solid state for cb radio I truly understand your love for them. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I dont see how 'quality' can work its way into tube's sound description. they're dirty sumbiches if anything but people like em... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

but I own currently and have used in the past tube amps for cb radio.

It's a little different for radio purposes. There, it's simply too expensive to get MOSFETs that do that kind of power at those frequencies - it's a question of cost. For RF, a watt really is a watt, as long as the spurious harmonics are low and the signal stays unclipped.

Tube amps for CB...*tsk tsk* //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Little more than the 4 watt legal limit, I suppose. If you're going to be illegal on the CB band, at least use modified amateur radio gear (like the Icom radios I've got in the van), that way you can be sure it's a clean signal and keep the FCC from knocking //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

I dont see how 'quality' can work its way into tube's sound description. they're dirty sumbiches if anything but people like em... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

Like I said previously - I've never used any tube amps for home audio...only cb radio. The differences present in a tube-driven cb radio amplifier and a solid-state unit of comparable wattage is, well, tremendous.

Jack, my deadkey output is under 4 watts. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif With modulation, however, it's...well, considerably more. FCC only cares after there are innumerable documented complaints. There was a fella here that headed an illegal 'club' of sorts on 27.440mHz on LSW that he called "Mud Duck International"

He was running enough juice that with everything turned wide open he could be heard through turned off televisions a couple of blocks from his house. (his final drive amp required 3-phase 220v) FCC came a'knocking at his house and confiscated everything.

FCC doesn't have enough field agents to investigate everyone that's going beyond the 4 watt limit. If so every truck driver in the country currently employed driving OTR routes would be in a heap of trouble.

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

Is it for sale?

Other thread. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[MatthewR6 10+ year member]

Like I said previously - I've never used any tube amps for home audio...only cb radio. The differences present in a tube-driven cb radio amplifier and a solid-state unit of comparable wattage is, well, tremendous.
Jack, my deadkey output is under 4 watts. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif With modulation, however, it's...well, considerably more. FCC only cares after there are innumerable documented complaints. There was a fella here that headed an illegal 'club' of sorts on 27.440mHz on LSW that he called "Mud Duck International"

He was running enough juice that with everything turned wide open he could be heard through turned off televisions a couple of blocks from his house. (his final drive amp required 3-phase 220v) FCC came a'knocking at his house and confiscated everything.

FCC doesn't have enough field agents to investigate everyone that's going beyond the 4 watt limit. If so every truck driver in the country currently employed driving OTR routes would be in a heap of trouble.

LOL! My neighbors used to hear me on their organ, tv, boomboxs, ect!! I used to love talking when the skip came in! talked to people from all over the place, pretty cool!

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

That's one of the cool things about amateur radio...a) it's legal to run amplifiers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif and b) you don't need to wait for the skip to come in. There's usually a band open to somewhere 24hrs a day.