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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:17:46 +0000
From: "John Rabson" <word.factory@zetnet.co.uk>
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It has been known for people to use an 807 as a first RF stage, and I believe that at World War II monitoring stations it was used as in broadband amplifiers to feed a substantial number of HROs and AR88s.

73
John G3PAI

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On 22/02/2005 at 17:52 captbrian wrote:

>Hardly an 807 (beam power tetrode):  more like a EF50  (high gain
>pentode) but let's not get into this old man's talk ;-)) or we'll be into
>the 'young lads today don't know anything ' syndrome and the truth is that 
>..there's more in a 706iig  than I could have got into two  6 foot
>racks... Mind you it doesn't keep the shack so warm in this (UK) weather
>
>Bryan
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>  From: G4gvw@aol.com 
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>  Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:30 PM
>  Subject: Re: LF: Off Topic Ft101zd
>
>
>  Wrong Brian !
>
>  A real amateur wouldn't have put a bulb there in the first place. The
>input inductor would have been 10g enam copper (ex-surplus txformer) and
>the Ist RF would have been an 807 !
>
>  73 de Pat g4gvw !