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« Reply #25 on: April 26, 2009, 07:06:22 PM »
Small tubes are for wimps  Grin
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« Reply #26 on: April 26, 2009, 07:25:41 PM »
Well, I must just be a wimp.

The largest tube in the shack is easily lifted with it's handles.  It's an 8171, or 4CX10,000.  It's not glass, though.

The largest glass tubes I've ever run are the really wimby 450TLs, modulated by another pair of wimby tubes, the 450THs.  I'm rebuilding that rig right now.

When on the air in the past, that rig was driven by a 32V3.  I no longer own the 32V3, so I'm building a driver using a pair of really, really wimpy 35TGs.

Well, off to barbeque some hamburgers!

73, Wimpy, W7ALW
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« Reply #27 on: April 26, 2009, 07:40:13 PM »
Dem Dar uns are big uns. No Wimpy there that's for sure  Grin
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