[HBR] Octals and such

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Bill,

At least you are thinking and then thinking it through. I thought about 
building some of the projects, including HBR with subminiature tubes. We 
get an even greater space saving and a considerable saving in power 
consumption and heat, too. But.. there really aren't "equivalent" tubes 
at least not for all of the functions. Immediately we are faced with a 
series of cludges and if we are going to do "this" why not do "that", 
too. Gosh if we are going to do "that" why not do the "other thing", 
too. Real quick we are not building the radio we started with and we 
won't likely get the results we wanted - the reason we chose the project 
at the beginning.

Those other tubes *CAN* be used to build radio projects but the projects 
should be designed around those other tubes. It might be possible to 
adapt them into an HBR. If I was doing that it would be for space and 
power saving. If I really want those things why not adapt HBR to solid 
state? <evil grin>

73,

Bill  KU8H


On 11/22/2014 11:50 AM, ke9xq at charter.net wrote:
> Thanks Walt
>  : )
> You're right on OM after thinking of this
> for a few days, I can see the falicies of
> my daydreaming.  I have a bunch of
> octals and loctals and such, but do not
> think I will, build anything with them, unless
> I play with a regen or two down the road.
> right now, tho, am too busy procrastinating : )
> 73
> Bill  KE9XQ