[Boatanchors] PS for tube stuff: Follow up

[J. Forster]

Eugene Hertz wrote:

> Follow up question about power supplies for experimenting with tube gear...
>
> I was looking through some tubes I had for possibly building a cw transmitter.  I had the following tubes that I had collected

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>From your questions, you seem to be really unfamiliar with tubes. I REALLY would not even think about building a high power transmitter as a first venture. Try something smaller first, perhaps a 5 to 20 W unit
using a 6L6 or something. I'm fairly expert at electronics, but would think long and hard before attempting something like you are considering.

A few KV is DANGEROUS. So are RF burns. These things are NOT toys. You can EASILY get killed.

Just my $.02 worth,

-John