From my own experience when I was in communication with the Svetlana
stuff located in St. Petersburg I can only say that the head sales manager
Mr. Evgeny Matrosov is so much not willing to communicate with a local
hams/companies that I can hardly guess why...
At the same time being the CIS citizen I was in contact with Svetlana
for a while and know that the total amount of workers at Svetlana is 30 000
(!!). It is a huge plant manufacturing tubes from 0.1 to 1200000 W !
BUT: the problem of Svetlana is that people from the board are people
from the Soviet Union era bringing the fatal Soviet habits into business...
The quite opposite responce I received from the US Svetlana. Every my
E-mail was answered very professionally without delays. I wish the St.
Petersburg Headquarters would run business/public relations in the same way
!
Againg, it is scheaper (!!) and easier to buy tubes from the US office
rather than from the Russian one.
At the same time buying tubes for a home brew projects is a lot chaper
from individuals in your countries or me, UT7CT ( http://www.qsl.net/ut7ct )
Anyway, tastes differ.
Regards, Anton Koval, UT7CT
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Îò: sm5ki <sm5ki@algonet.se>
Êîìó: UT7CT --> Anton Koval <tony@uch.net>; amps@contesting.com
<amps@contesting.com>; steve bookout <nj4f@erols.com>
Äàòà: 27 ôåâðàëÿ 2000 ã. 12:49
Òåìà: SV: [AMPS] 4CX800's vs 4CX1600
>Yes I know.
>
>SVETLANA manufactured ( and still ? ) electrical lamps the first years. But
>when you start manufacture a new product there are always starting-up
>problems that EIMAC with a long experience of the 3CX800 have solved now.
>From a badge of new manufactured tubes of the 88 family ( 3CX800, 8873,
>8874, 8875, 8877......) only a certain percentage pass through final
control
>I heard. They are somewhat difficult to manufacture. Therefore they are
more
>expensive than other tubes.
>
>Our problem with NEW ( NOT SURPLUS ) manufactured 3CX800 SVETLANA tubes is,
>that we can not buy the tubes directly from SVETLANA in St. Petersburg only
>one night away by a nice boat trip from Stockholm. Which should be much
>cheaper than paying extra US customs. US owner and possibly the firm who is
>selling in Sweden want their share also. The tubes that are sold surplus
are
>of course of very high quality as they were made to very tight Soviet
>military and commercial standards but there is not the guarantee SVETLANA
>provides for new tubes.
>
>The tube world has really changed. I remember many years ago we found on a
>Swedish Baltic beach a Russian made 813 with broken glass that some ship
>radio operator had thrown into the sea. We actually did not now then that
>you manufactured radio tubes that also at that time were exported.
>
>Is this what should be called " Radio Glasnost "?
>
>73s de Hans
>
>
>----------
>>Från: "UT7CT --> Anton Koval" <tony@uch.net>
>>Till: "sm5ki" <sm5ki@algonet.se>, <amps@contesting.com>, "Steve Bookout"
><nj4f@erols.com>
>>Ämne: Re: [AMPS] 4CX800's vs 4CX1600
>>Datum: sön 27 feb 2000 09.07
>>
>
>>Svetlana has been on the market since the late 19th century. Quality is
the
>>main avantage I think...
>>
>>
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>>Îò: sm5ki <sm5ki@algonet.se>
>>Êîìó: UT7CT --> Anton Koval <tony@uch.net>; amps@contesting.com
>><amps@contesting.com>; Steve Bookout <nj4f@erols.com>
>>Äàòà: 27 ôåâðàëÿ 2000 ã. 9:38
>>Òåìà: SV: [AMPS] 4CX800's vs 4CX1600
>>
>>
>>>I have often been wondering why have the match problem of two 4CX800
tubes?
>>>Would it not be better to always use one 4cx1600B tube? Of course the
>>latter
>>>tube will easier generate parasitics because its ability to amplify at
>>>higher frequencies than the 4CX800.
>>>
>>>By the way, when is SVETLANA coming out with a direct replacement of the
>>>3-500Z? There has been rumours of a 3-600Z tube, I heard. Since EIMAC
>>>stopped manufacturing the tube it is very difficult to find anything
>>similar
>>> reliable on the market. I recently saw a HENRY 2K3 with the original
>>>graphite 3-500Zs from early sixties in good shape.
>>>
>>>Why buy SVETLANA 3cx800s when EIMAC has a much longer manufacturing
>>>experience? The very small price difference does not motivate buying
>>>SVETLANA. Or is their quality higher?
>>>
>>>Is there, by the way, a reliable source for 3CX1000A7s with sockets?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hans/SM5KI
>>>
>>>
>>>----------
>>>>Från: "UT7CT --> Anton Koval" <tony@uch.net>
>>>>Till: <amps@contesting.com>, "Steve Bookout" <nj4f@erols.com>
>>>>Ämne: Re: [AMPS] 4CX800's vs 4CX1600
>>>>Datum: lör 26 feb 2000 23.41
>>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear Steve,
>>>>
>>>> The 4CX800A (GU-74B) tube is rated at about 800 W, the 4CX1600
>>(GS-23B)
>>>>is rated at 1600 - 2000 W and works well over 1000 mHz.
>>>> More technical data in English can be found at my site at
>>>>http://www.qsl.net/ut7ct
>>>> 73 !
>>>>-----------
>>>>UT7CT Ham Radio Devices - Fine range of CT
>>>>Hand Keys & Paddles. Collectable keys. Svetlana
>>>>PA tubes and much more at http://www.qsl.net/ut7ct
>>>>tony@uch.net ICQ#19487420
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>Îò: Steve Bookout <nj4f@erols.com>
>>>>Êîìó: amps@contesting.com <amps@contesting.com>
>>>>Äàòà: 27 ôåâðàëÿ 2000 ã. 1:40
>>>>Òåìà: [AMPS] 4CX800's vs 4CX1600
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>>Anyone care to comment on what the advantages/disadvantages of either
>>tube
>>>>>arrangement in an amp, all other things being relatively equal.
>>>>>
>>>>>I would expect mainly the cost.
>>>>>
>>>>>73 de Steve, NR4M
>>>>>
>>>>>---------------------------------------------
>>>>>Steve Bookout, NR4M (ex NJ4F)
>>>>>Rapidan Data Systems
>>>>>
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