Jim Tonne, are you sure about Tom Yingst? He was at RCA/Lancaster for years during the development of many tubes, but I thought his tenure at Eimac was shorter and that the Y designations preceeded
Several years ago I bought a few surplus Y-448 tubes made by National. They were close to my standard 4-1000A`s in performance at HF,however,the filaments drew around 30 amps (per tube) as compared t
John Lyles wrote in part: That's what I was told while I was at Continental. The year was probaby 1986 or 1987. He was (is) apparently a true tube guru. - JimT _______________________________________
I thought Y tubes go back to the 50's. Carl KM1H _______________________________________________ Amps mailing list Amps@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps
My memory agrees with Carl's memory, although I was not around in the early 50s to know first hand. But I have seen Y-tubes that are quite old in various systems. Also, they still sell Y tubes. Jim,
John: I think I was indeed misled. JPhred Riley indicated just a bit ago that Tom didn't have a hand in *all* of the Y tubes. And I agree: someone ask him at NAB how he fitted in with the Y tubes. -
the two I have opened are that colour and it not uniform as if from bombardment. I'll take a wiff this weekend. When I opened the first one the 'horse-hair' packing on the top was falling apart and