I still have a McIntosh stereo amp in working condition from 1968 or so --
40 watts *RMS* power per channel.  I usually turn it off when not in use
but used to leave tube ham gear on all the time -- easier on the
filaments.

Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON wrote:

> I think that back in the days of tubes and no solid state things life was
> a bit simpler when it came to radios and other technology.  I don't have
> too much experience with tube type radios, except for my grandparent's old
> Silver Fox I think it is stereo system.  It was this big wooden thing and
> the top slid from left to right, and on the inside there was a radio and
> record player.  The tubes on that always glowed like an orange white
> color, and I remember my grandfather getting upset when it was left on
> because the tubes would over heat.  Like I posted last night about my
> Phisher unit I  like older technology, and there is some kind of magic in
> having it.
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> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>
> > Isn't it interesting thhat one breath of a mention about an old radio
> > brings out many many loving comments about old radios.  But never the same
> > reaction to a didgital or solid state radio.  Or as I think of it, not to a
> > ssb radio.
> > How many people are pationate about their first icom 735 or ts430?  I think
> > it is something about tubes but I am wondering.  Remember the swan 350 and
> > the ncx3's.  At the bottom of the sunspot cycle in the 60's companies made
> > radios that went no higher than 20 meters.
> > Speaking of that, anybody use the hw12, 32, or 22?
> > I have seen guys modify the hw12's and make them into 160 meter single
> > banders.
> >
> > Howard
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