Re: [Amps] Western Electric

[Alek Petkovic <vk6apk@bigpond.com>]

Summed it up beautifully there Leigh.

I clicked the link and my heart sank in the same way.

The reason, of course, is that the audio people seem to love the idea of 
paying premium prices, whereas we hams have a different mindset.
73, Alek, VK6APK

On 23/03/2022 7:08 am, Leigh Turner wrote:
> Unfortunately this explorative initiative here is skewed entirely towards the mainstream 
> audiophile tube market…sadly not the ham radio transmitting tube market for 3-500Z, 
> 572B, 811A, 3CX800A7, 3CX1500A7/ 8877, 4CX1000A, 4CX1500B, etc  ☹
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> Reconstituting the tooling, materials, and knowhow to produce these Tx tubes to the 
> former Eimac quality standard would be an overreaching bridge too far….
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> Leigh
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> VK5KLT / VK5LT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amps <amps-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Gary
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 9:01 AM
> To: Amps group <amps@contesting.com>
> Subject: [Amps] Western Electric
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> In case someone hasn't seen this. Western Electric is looking to get back into 
> the domestic tube market, and they are looking into what tubes to produce. You 
> can see more and make suggestions here:
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>   <https://www.westernelectric.com/expand> 
> https://www.westernelectric.com/expand
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> 73,
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> Joe kk0sd
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