Good Day All, Has anyone reading this post had any experience(s) --- pro, or con, or otherwise! --- with Chinese tubes...?
I'm specifically interested in the types 211 and 203A triodes. Your thoughts are appreciated --- thanks in advance! ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 7 19:45:45 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Original-To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Delivered-To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Received: from web52806.mail.yahoo.com (web52806.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.48.249]) by mailman.qth.net (Postfix) with SMTP id CA7CA859C15 for <amradio@mailman.qth.net>; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:45:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 20882 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Oct 2005 23:34:55 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; bîX6STbo2cCZkzWx2VRjJ6dhaHz0H9C0ycX6HU5LM7R7E/EV3ZhbHh30HJkC+Ylu9Zv5hWZ5SEnY23nHOJgUjx1pVIymacxrRiKbWfLj9jq3Rb7NEB0BvXn3FQZel3YPwkukj63u406jPm+Dw+FxzAzj3QAo59uhSRKcuscWmp8 ; Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [12.77.52.164] by web52806.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:34:55 PDT Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:34:55 -0700 (PDT) From: VJB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: amradio@mailman.qth.net In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [AMRadio] FT101E for real X-BeenThere: amradio@mailman.qth.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: Discussion of AM Radio <amradio@mailman.qth.net> List-Id: Discussion of AM Radio <amradio.mailman.qth.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/private/amradio> List-Post: <mailto:amradio@mailman.qth.net> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:45:45 -0000 Jose, yes, that's a real recording of Frank's FT101EE. Moreover, reception was not dressed up in any way at my end, no equalization, no compression, nothing but the diode output of the R390A into a bridging amp, into an open reel tape recorder. As the others have pointed out, his is not the only one made to sound so sweet. Bill, W3DUQ used an FT101 for many years. http://www.amwindow.org/audio/mov/w3duq1a.mov Steve, WB3HUZ, who later went on to the FT102, also has used the FT101 to great sound: (link missing) So, yes, consider taking a look at the boards in there and the specific components that need to be changed. There's room to work on it, and apparently not that much of a challenge. Paul/VJB __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com