Good point... Man, I surely appreciate all the help on this site... You guys are great! I'm just a beginner with the older stuff and have always been so envious of my older brother, WA5ZTE and my Dad W5SNY (silent)... They started in the old days and built and repaired their radios... I wasn't a ham until the 90's... And so I'm wanting to go back and learn from the good stuff...
John WB5CW -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd, KA1KAQ Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 6:18 AM To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: Re: [AMRadio] 75A2 It's certainly not a bad idea to have replacements if you do end up needing them (you will, someday), just not advisable to swap them wholesale as others have said. The radio itself is still the best tube tester IMO, once you get it running it's easier to compare results through performance. Tube testers are fine for a quick look and for showing some obvious faults, but I've had two instances in the last 2 years where tubes tested great and showed no problems, but didn't work properly in the set. I've also had receivers that worked great despite having some tubes that tested low on the scale. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ/4 On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:24 PM, John Carrington, M.D. <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't, Bob, but I'm not going to rush into buying the replacements > until I can get them tested.. > Good advice and thanks! ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
