[Milsurplus] VT-4/211

[Ed Sharpe]

Alas are  gone the  days at hamfests  wee  you  could  buy a  box  of many vt-4  new in old  JAN  boxes  for  5  bucks  for the   assorted  box....  I was in  the  recess of  my  garage  corners  yesterday  that  had not seem my footprints in over  20 years and  found a  big  box of  new  boxed  JAN 211 and   213  tubes   now all I  need is the  Collins  30l1  to consume the 811s to  go next to the kwm2 in the  Luke  AFB  cold  War  Mars Station  display    and  and  art-13   to use  the  813s  in!
 
Ed Sharpe  Archivist  for SMECC    KF7RWW  www.smecc.org 
 
In a message dated 5/28/2018 10:03:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time, kgordon2006 at frontier.com writes:

 
 On 28 May 2018 at 11:08, Mike Feher wrote:

> Hi Mike -
> 
> VT-4s or 211s at $100 each, if good, are a bargain in today's market.
> The audio guys go nuts over them, that is why most BC191/375's do not
> have them. I have been offered $250 each for the 211's in my
> essentially NOS BC-191. I still have it all complete, HI. 73 - Mike 

Absolutely correct, and they have been that way for some years now.

Some time ago, like 10 years ago or so, I tried to find some 211s for some of the folks on 
the old Glowbugs list for use in their early transmitters.

I haunted eBay and eventually, by very careful "shopping", found a number, like 10 or so, of 
good to excellent (some NOS) 211s for an average prices of $20 each. This was while the 
audio-phools were asking at least $100 each for them...and more.

I sold most of those to the guys on the GB list for what I paid for them plus shipping and 
kept 2 for use in my own TPTG transmitter.

I also still have two NIB 211s made somewhat recently, and still in their original boxes.

I had intended to eventually have a BC-375 and would have used them in that, but I have 
recently decided to cut back on what I have now, and now decided to forego the BC-375 I 
was recently offered.

Ken W7EKB


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