[ARC5] BC-375 / BC-191 Owners:

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 9 Dec 2011 at 10:18, David Stinson wrote:

> First:  I'm not selling anything with this post. ;-)
> 
> Many of you reading this have a BC-375 or BC-191 sitting in the 
> garage/barn/basement (wet! ACK!) that you'd enjoy bringing to life,
> but it came with no tubes and you don't have a zillion bucks to buy
> them.  If you could tube the set and get it running without
> modifications for less than $100 worth of tubes, would you make the
> effort?  If the subs worked well but provided about half the normal
> output (and had an easier power-suppy requirement), would you be
> interested?  If not this, what would it take to motivate you to
> dust-off this great old transmitter and get it glowing?

Dave:

FYI, I bought several sets of 211/VT-4Cs very inexpensively off eBay. 
One set, made in China, was brand new, and I cannot tell them, both 
in operation and in appearance, from the several originals I bought.

By very careful watching of eBay, I bought over a dozen original 211s 
for an average price of $20.00 each. ALL of them were good.

Most of those I sold for what I paid for them plus shipping to a 
bunch of fellows on the old Glowbugs list who wanted them for various 
purposes.

I kept the set of NIB newly-made ones, and one set of originals for 
my push-pull TNT 1929 replica transmitter.

The audiophools don't get all of them. They miss many that are 
perfectly good.

I have not attempted to do the same for the 10Y that is in the BC-
191/375 though.

Ken W7EKB