Michael Tallent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Becaus in the glory days of vacuum tube TV sets the sweep tubes were very cheap and available at the corner Drug Store, 6146's were transmitting tubes and cost more at that time. Now vacuum TV sets are gone, the sweep tubes have very little other uses and 6146's are still transmitting tubes. At that time most hams were happy to have the $1 sweep tubes instead of the $3.00 6146's.
Mike Tallent W6MXV designed color TV stuff in the 1960's at RCA ----- Original Message ----- From: "PWells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:18 AM Subject: [drakelist] Sweep tube's to 6146's > > PWells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter > I thunk that you have made the right decision on converting to 6146's . > I plan to de the same wiyh a couple of Yaesu's that I love. > Hey, operating is what it's all about. We are first and foremost hams, > not antique dealers. I also agree that it was a mistake and also a bit > of a mystery as to why so many transceivers were made with sweep tubes. > Kenwood was the first to wake up with their TS 520/820 series and them > Yaesu caught on with the FT-101 ZD. I might even have to convert my TR-4 > one day! > > 73's > VE2FAR > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Behalf of Michael Tallent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: http://www.zerobeat.net Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
