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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 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 !