[rescue] I want a vacuum tube

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 09:04:32 CDT 2008


Jochen Kunz wrote:
> If you wane see some realy big tubes:
> http://www.hcrs.at/BSBG600.HTM
> Sorry, german only. But the pictures are still nice to look at. This is a 600
> kW AM radio station. The 600 kW HF output is generated by a _single_ CQS 400
> tube.
> 
> http://www.hcrs.at/ICONS/_BSBG25.JPG
> The person in the foreground holds a CQS 200 tube, used as NF preamplifier.
> CQS 400 tubes in the background.

Good Lord.  Those look like water heaters.

That'll suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent 
orange afro.

Peace...  Sridhar



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