[Boatanchors] 813 grid to filament short

[Rob Atkinson]

Even though some tube are specified for horizontal operation I avoid
it with the exception of the small tubes like 6146 and receiving
tubes.

Large tubes with long grid, cathode, heater leads have to be mounted
just so, and run within specs, and so on.

I'd reorient the chassis so they are vertical if possible and run them
and see what happens.


> It runs  400W of
> carrier and 1500W PEP.
>

I wish AM operators would quit expressing power in therms of PEP, a
slopbucket term that came about in the 1960s when manufacturers of
cheap crappy lightweight sweep tube gear etc. designed for slopbucket,
were seeking to bamboozle appliance operators into thinking they had
QRO gear ("Up to 2 KW PEP Input!!")  Now, the modern day plastic radio
operator pisses and moans about how _heavy_ his dinky table top
leenyar is.

The halfway measurable signal component is the carrier--carrier power
tells AM operators all they need to know.

73

Rob
K5UJ