[Boatanchors] Alex's Gorgeous 1938 Transmitter

[Freeberg, Scott (STP)]

Wow, what a gorgeous looking 1938 transmitter Alex!!!! I must be having some kind of parallax type problem when I look at the two photo's of the top and bottom.  The chassis appears much wider in the bottom photo than the top photo, depth vs width.  Either its my eyes (which it is), or you have discovered a way to make much more volume inside the chassis than outside the chassis :))))))))

Beautiful construction job.  Yes I agree, the glass 6L6 looks much nicer to me than a metal sleeve 6L6, and the ST style 80 looks nicer than a newer sleeve style 80.  Probably the most dramatic example of tube beauty was when I fired up my Johnson Valiant 1 for the first time and those 866 mercury vapor rectifiers were glowing bright blue.  Gorgeous.

How much chirp to you experience. Noting that its a single stage your loading likely has a mega effect on it.   Has the 6L6 been hard on crystals?

73, Scott WA9WFA