[Hallicrafters] Soild state vs Tubes

[jeremy-ca]

Little tubes glowing doesnt do it for me either. Heck most tubes used over 2 
decades are metal anyway and I cant get all hot and passionate over a 5Y3 or 
watch a 35Z5 short out. I must say that the magic eye tubes in my SX-9 and 
NC-101X are sort of cute.

If I want glow I'll look at a 4-1000A, 250TH, 304TL or something similar 
that really lights up with just the filaments. Put some serious power into 
them and watch those plates glow bright orange and give you a tan.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Markavage" <manualman at juno.com>
To: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Soild state vs Tubes


> Maybe for some, but for me, restoring is the challenge of bringing
> something back to life to all its glory. Warm glow or no glow, it makes
> no difference to me.  I'd rather just put my ear up to the speaker or put
> on a set of cans. Just watching tubes glow, doesn't do it for me.
>
> Pete, wa2cwa
>
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 21:58:53 EDT HallicrafterSX28 at aol.com writes:
>> The whole purpose of  restoring a 60 or 70 year old radio is to
>> experience
>> the glow and warmth of a thermionic vacuum tube  !! If you want  to
>> use solid
>> state replacements then you might as well remove all of the tubes
>> and insert
>> transistors in all the sockets(of course with the proper voltage
>> dropping
>> resistors !) that would defintely reduce ALL heating and load on the
>>  power
>> transformer !!
>> I like  to open the top lid on my SX-28 or SX-17 to  enjoy the warm
>> orange
>> glow to comes of all the tubes including the rectifier  tube when
>> it's pulling
>> signals from a distant station.
>> My 2  cents
>> Nick
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