Nah, sadly the band is a lot poorer without him. He had hundreds of
friends around the world. A gentleman on the air and a great ambassador
for our hobby.
He just didn't understand or care much about tube guidelines.
73, Alek.
On 20/09/2011 9:00 AM, Carl wrote:
> Sounded like the band was much better without him....
>
> Carl
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alek Petkovic" <vk6apk@bigpond.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Amps] 811A
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>> Yeah, many years ago, I used to enjoy going around to visit Jim, VK6RU
>> (SK). He was very proud of his set of 4 RCA 811A tubes with great gaping
>> holes in the anodes. He showed them to everybody who would visit. Funny
>> enough, they still actually worked in his 30L1 before he replaced them
>> with a set of 572B's.
>>
>> Seeing stuff like that, probably helped to whet my appetite for all
>> things QRO. Jim ran everything hard to the right and when he was working
>> 20m long path to the states, it was pointless for anybody else around
>> here to get on that band. He used it all. Hi hi.
>>
>> 73, Alek
>> VK6APK
>>
>> On 20/09/2011 3:18 AM, Roger (sub1) wrote:
>>> On 9/19/2011 10:23 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>>>> Sounds like it's time to start looking for RCA 811As at hamfests
>>>> and on-line.
>>> Even those are not bullet proof when used in amps that run they at
>>> twice
>>> their ratings (or more)<:-))
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Roger (K8RI)
>>>> Rob
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