[ICOM] Opinions wanted

[Eddy Avila]

I'm with Adam......Happy New year, by-the-way. The
only "tubes" allowed at my QTH must be of the hi-power
transmitting type, otherwise solid state reigns!!

73 and Cheers all......


--- Adam Farson <farson at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> (begging Dick's indulgence)
> 
> It seems I started something. By "decent" I meant
> North American or Western
> European NOS.
> 
> Thanks for all the offers, but the only vacuum tubes
> in my household are a
> set of spares for my Measurements Corp. Model 59 GDO
> (955, 6J4, 0D3). I
> replaced the 5Y3GT with a Si diode stack.
> 
> (CRT's in the oscilloscope, spectrum analyser and 2
> TV's don't count.)
> 
> When I left ZS in 1967, I sold a 1 m3 carton of new,
> boxed tubes (receiving
> & transmitting) for about $100. Imagine what they
> would be worth nowadays...
> 
> Back on topic: The only tube product Icom ever sold,
> to my knowledge, was
> the ARD 230 autotune HF amplifier re-badged as the
> IC-1500. That ended when
> Icom launched the IC-4KL in 1990.
> 
> Cheers for now, 73,
> Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ
> 
> "In technology, there are only two degrees of
> freedom: forward and down.
> There is no backwards." 
> 
> 
> 
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