Jim candela wrote:
Hmmm, Well it seems like the ads claim is true, verified by Mahlon, K4OQ. In
that case I reiterate, this is "one heck of a deal". Try pricing the 6L6GC
from any source NOS or new, and compare. How many AM rigs use the 6L6 as
modulators?
Johnson Ranger (is this correct?)
1614
7027
How many others?
Yogie/KC5MIP had a Temco that used (4) 6L6's in the Modulator stage. I want to
say it had a pair of 807's in the final, but I don't remember, exactly.
Ronnie/K5WLT built a modulator for his Knight Kit T-50, just after he
graduated up from being a Johnny Novice, to General. That's an
interesting modulator, in that it uses a pair of 6L6's and was built
from a Popular Elextronics magazine article, from back in the
mid-to-late 50's. One of those 6L6's is apparently slightly
microphonic. He can take the plastic handle of a screwdriver, hit the
metal 6L6 and the tube 'rings' like a bell. Ronnie has had so much fun
with that rig, running a single 807, modulated by a pair of 6L6's... and
has worked all over the country with it.
I, myself, have plugged in 6L6's into the Ranger, and Rager II I had,
back before I got the titanic.
I've got an old audio amp here, that I got from John/W5MEU that runs
either a pair, or 4, in p-p paralell.
6L6's are populare everywhere. And, while the engineers mght have
decided to use either 1614's in the Rangers, or 7027's in the Ranger
II's, I couldn't tell a nickles worth of difference in the rigs that I
had, between those tubes, and the 6L6.
Just my .02c.
Do I get change? ;-)
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73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
