"Leanne" wrote in message
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"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in news:donr4h$1u6$1
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just during warm up.


Warmup? 4-1000's don't warmup...(c;

Oh, you mean until the graphite plates are cherry red on the pair of
them...(c;

Well, not exactly, but we did run cherry red graphites for a time on the
homebrew push-pull 211's (aka VT-127?). Shame the plate xformer smoked
during ARRL RCC certificate attempts.

Nothing like the warm glow of a pair of 3-500's key down on rtty, on a
cold
winter's night. Almost as warming as a fireplace.

Leanne
W1WXS


And the solder running out of the 3-500 tube pins. I restored a large box of
pulled 3-500Z's back in 1970 when I arrived on Adak Island. Some of the MARS
ops at KL7AIZ were not real good about tuning the Henry 2K3 with Johnson
Viking matchbox into the 80 meter rhombic. The tubes got so hot the solder
ran out of the pins. Once I discovered the fix, there was talk of awarding
me some kind of medal!
73
Doug K7ABX