[Hallicrafters] 6146 again

[manualman at juno.com]

I know Glen will chime in with his good 6146 thoughts but I've been using
a mixture of A's and B's in my Valiant final for years without any
problems. My general rule of thumb is to use what you can get your hands
on, meter readings are within spec, tubes don't demonstrate internal
fireworks, final doesn't break into oscillation, local TV's screens don't
turn blue when you transmit, etc. But then again, I also don't replace
all the caps in a rig when I bring one home from a hamfest. 

This topic has had almost as much play as the "ARRL violates bandplan" 
discussion on QRZ but it's fun to review it over and .....

Pete, WA2CWA

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:39:05 -0400 "Jack Schrader" <w1jhs at midmaine.com>
writes:
> Don't want to beat a dead horse but thought I'd throw this out 
> anyway.
> 
> I've looked through the reflector and have read the comments 
> concerning the 6146, 6146A and 6146B but have seen nothing about 
> using a 6146B in the ht32b with a solid state rectifier. 
> 
> I've finally got my 32b ready to put on the air. It does have just 
> 6146's in it but one of my two ht37's that came ss'ed has one 6146a 
> and one 6146b and it works ok although I have not had it on the air 
> for long periods of time. The one ht37 that I have been using has 
> just plain 6146's.
> 
> Comments please !
> 
> 73 Jack 
>     w1jhs

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