Power Supplies
madhatter,
Good to hear you had success on Ebay as that is where most of my vintage has come from.
Here are some starters for Tubes:
This is a good one for experimenters as he gives some base power supplies but goes into a Tube fully with explanations.
Types of Vacuum Tubes
RCA material here:
electron Tube Data sheets - RCA Documents
and this is the entire RCA Radiotron Designer's Handbook for 1952:
electron Tube Data sheets - RCA - Radiotron Designer's Handbook - 4th Edition - 1952
RCA were particularly good with schematic material as each volume contained many after the Tube detail.
RCA Transmitting Tubes Manual TT-4:
Mainly Finals and oscillators and a good Bias supply.
This is only a small representation of what's available and will upload the ARRL detail to 'n6kph'.
Strongly suggest the ARRL books as reference material as they cover all facets of Tube uses.
Smokey
madhatter,
Good to hear you had success on Ebay as that is where most of my vintage has come from.
Here are some starters for Tubes:
This is a good one for experimenters as he gives some base power supplies but goes into a Tube fully with explanations.
Types of Vacuum Tubes
RCA material here:
electron Tube Data sheets - RCA Documents
and this is the entire RCA Radiotron Designer's Handbook for 1952:
electron Tube Data sheets - RCA - Radiotron Designer's Handbook - 4th Edition - 1952
RCA were particularly good with schematic material as each volume contained many after the Tube detail.
RCA Transmitting Tubes Manual TT-4:
Mainly Finals and oscillators and a good Bias supply.
This is only a small representation of what's available and will upload the ARRL detail to 'n6kph'.
Strongly suggest the ARRL books as reference material as they cover all facets of Tube uses.
Smokey
the use of tubes here is simply to avoid solid state devices as they are fundamentally different in operation and the goal here is to exploit the electric field as much as possible. tubes get into the 4th state of matter that is well worth exploring.

stay safe!..
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