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On Wed, 20 May 2009 21:26:52 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


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On Wed, 20 May 2009 20:53:26 -0400, "Eisboch"
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On Wed, 20 May 2009 17:25:21 -0700, "Calif Bill"
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On Wed, 20 May 2009 02:46:50 -0400, "Eisboch"
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I think they should put new tubes in the old LORAN system
transmitters
and
keep 'em running for a while.

There 'ya go - Tubes.

WHOO HOO!!!

~~ From a radio Luddite ~~

Last Loran I had did not have Valves.

You know - you could make the argument that transistors are nothing
more than solid state vacuum tubes.

Which would make them valves.

True, but in conventional wisdom, tubes are valves, transistors are
simply
"solid state".

For Calif Bill's benefit, I wasn't referring to a LORAN receiver which
is
most assuredly solid state.
I was speaking of the transmitters that are very likely to still use big
old
vacuum tube power amp outputs.

MORE POWER!!!

3CX3000A7 baby....

They make good drivers.


And they continue to work during a nuclear holocaust that disables
solid state electronics.


And why would you need a tube radio after a nuke holocaust? No power or
stations left?