Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 20:15:21 -0000
"CarloVanGestel" <carlo@vangestel.info> wrote: Great thanks, oh Ron, oh thou inexhaustible source of proverbs.Nothing to that: on the one had a collection of over 900 quotes and sayings accumulated over the years, and a prog I wrote that changes randomly the mail signature every half hour. Cheers, Ron. -- If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Anton Chekhov -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
Great thanks, oh Ron, oh thou inexhaustible source of proverbs.
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
phillip_kelly
Thanks Chris, if anyone was going to know it was you! It's blindingly
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obvious what it is now that you have 'educated' me. Best wishes Phil MW0KGP
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From: wireless-set-no19@groups.io [mailto:wireless-set-no19@groups.io] On Behalf Of Chris_Suslowicz Sent: 02 March 2021 22:08 To: wireless-set-no19@groups.io Subject: Re: [wireless-set-no19] Amplifier spare valve box contents At 13:41 -0800 2/3/21, phillip_kelly (MW0KGP) wrote: Just a small puzzle that perhaps someone can answer. I've recently acquireda 'Spare Valve Box' ostensibly for the WS19 amplifier. It is marked No 5 Mk 1/1. Its spares number is also marked as ZA28552.951219, Cartridge fuses No1 500mA, ZA3577 (6 off) and 1 Carrier Fuse Cartridge No1 Z 590101. There is no surprise in respect of the valves, spare bulbs and 500mA fuses,but what on earth is the Carrier Fuse Cartridge No1? Note the number prefix is given as 'Z' and not 'ZA' The amplifier only has one fuse installed (500mA) so I can't see any reasonwhy an additional fuse - whatever it is - should be included. Anyone know?Yes. :-) It's a spare of the fuseholder front that screws into the body, and is present in case you break or lose the one from the amplifier (e.g. by dropping it into the long grass/darkened recesses of your command tank, etc.) while changing the fuse. Same as the Case, Spare Parts, No.5C holding a couple of fuseholder caps, connector clips and springs, dynamotor brushes and flick locking screws, etc. "Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it." Best regards, Chris. (G8KGS)
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cjckidd
Thought I had better say hello rather than lurking...
I have been interested in wireless and the history of wireless for as long as I can remember. I am, currently, the Hon Curator of the HMS Collingwood Heritage Collection as well as a member of VMARS and the DEHS. I can bring a dark blue perspective to bear on some things- and share knowledge that I an other Heritage Collection volunteers have built up over the years. 73 Clive G3YTQ G3YTQ
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
Michael O'Beirne
Carlo,
Shades perhaps of my postillion being struck by lightning?
73s Michael G8MOB
From: wireless-set-no19@groups.io <wireless-set-no19@groups.io> On Behalf Of CarloVanGestel
Sent: 03 March 2021 17:20 To: wireless-set-no19 <wireless-set-no19@groups.io> Subject: Re: [wireless-set-no19] Amplifier spare valve box contents
Dear Ron, Does your obscure French proverb CARLO (from Belgium) -way off topic-
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 17:20:20 -0000
"CarloVanGestel" <carlo@vangestel.info> wrote: Dear Ron,Rather: "the ambiguous ectoplasm of the slender ambrosia chamfers the fate of the dark mangroves" Obscure ancestral quote Cheers, Ron. -- Al Rey la hacienda y la vida Se haz de dar; pero el honor Es patrimonio del alma Y el alma soló es de Dios -- Pedro Calderón de la Barca -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
Dear Ron, Does your obscure French proverb CARLO (from Belgium) -way off topic-
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Subject: Re: [wireless-set-no19] Amplifier spare valve box contents From: "Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" <renaud@...> Date: Wed, March 3, 2021 11:01 am To: wireless-set-no19@groups.io -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 10:37:14 +0000 > "Chris_Suslowicz" <chris@...> wrote: > >> >Hence the reason for owning a large house and having single occupancy > >> Oi! I resemble that remark. > > "resemble" ? Does not look like you... > > Cheers, > > Ron. > -- > l'ectoplasme ambigu de la svelte ambroisie > chanfreine le destin des noirs palétuviers... > > -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- > > > > > > >
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
I read that the RCA VT60 and the Cossor-ish VT60A, with ceramic base and ribbed anode were 807s selected to be able to work at higher frequency than the bog-standard 807 [120MHz versus 60MHz]. This may have been formalised in the 8018 version, on which data is scarce. Personally, I have never been able to find any evidence that ceramic based 807s had a different electrical spec. to the brown plastic based variety, except for a distant memory that the ceramic bases “resisted flashover at high altitudes”.
807s used to be popular with the Audio brigade, until dethroned by the [related] KT66 – perhaps due to too many close encounters with 807 anode caps? ;0) Roger Walker
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Sent: 03 March 2021 12:25 To: wireless-set-no19@groups.io Subject: Re: [wireless-set-no19] Amplifier spare valve box contents
Chris
Thanks for that.
I knew the 807 was a major workhorse of transmitters but wow, so many different designations.
Is there any discernible practical difference between ceramic and other bases.
BTW do you recall the designation of the Plessey aerial multicoupler consisting of about 6 cathode followers using 807s?
73s Michael G8MOB
From: wireless-set-no19@groups.io <wireless-set-no19@groups.io>
On Behalf Of Chris_Suslowicz
Michael (G8MOB) wrote:
Not quite: it's the ceramic-based version, otherwise identical.
ATS25 CV124, CV1374, CV1572 (ceramic base), CV1060, QE06/50 (Mullard - as Phillips/Miniwatt) QV05/25 (Mullard) RK39 (Raytheon ceramic base) VT60 (Air Ministry), VT60A (Air Ministry ceramic base), VT-100 (USA), VT199 (GPO) ZA3496 5B/250A (STC) 10E/587 (ceramic base) 10E/11441
There are a boatload of other designations/variants by the look of things.
Best regards, Chris. (G8KGS)
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
Michael (G8MOB) asked:
ChrisWorse than that, there are three different uses of "VT": Air Ministry (Valve, Transmitting), U.S. Military (Vacuum Tube), and (British) Post Office (BPO/GPO) also used (Vacuum Tube) - and _none_ of the numbers match. Is there any discernible practical difference between ceramic and other bases.Better insulation, so recommended for high altitude and (I think) humid environments - hence the Air Ministry using the ceramic based version. (I think the RN also used them.) BTW do you recall the designation of the Plessey aerial multicoupler consisting of about 6 cathode followers using 807s?No, but it sounds distinctly Naval in application. (Though apparently Bletchley Park designed/built something similar using 807s for running multiple intercept receivers during WW2.) Best regards, Chris.
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
Michael O'Beirne
Chris
Thanks for that.
I knew the 807 was a major workhorse of transmitters but wow, so many different designations.
Is there any discernible practical difference between ceramic and other bases.
BTW do you recall the designation of the Plessey aerial multicoupler consisting of about 6 cathode followers using 807s?
73s Michael G8MOB
From: wireless-set-no19@groups.io <wireless-set-no19@groups.io> On Behalf Of Chris_Suslowicz
Sent: 03 March 2021 10:58 To: wireless-set-no19@groups.io Subject: Re: [wireless-set-no19] Amplifier spare valve box contents
Michael (G8MOB) wrote:
Not quite: it's the ceramic-based version, otherwise identical.
ATS25 CV124, CV1374, CV1572 (ceramic base), CV1060, QE06/50 (Mullard - as Phillips/Miniwatt) QV05/25 (Mullard) RK39 (Raytheon ceramic base) VT60 (Air Ministry), VT60A (Air Ministry ceramic base), VT-100 (USA), VT199 (GPO) ZA3496 5B/250A (STC) 10E/587 (ceramic base) 10E/11441
There are a boatload of other designations/variants by the look of things.
Best regards, Chris. (G8KGS) _._,_._,_ _,_
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 10:37:14 +0000
"Chris_Suslowicz" <chris@suslowicz.org> wrote: Hence the reason for owning a large house and having single occupancy Oi! I resemble that remark."resemble" ? Does not look like you... Cheers, Ron. -- l'ectoplasme ambigu de la svelte ambroisie chanfreine le destin des noirs palétuviers... -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
Michael (G8MOB) wrote:
Gents Is the ATS25 the same as an 807? Not quite: it's the ceramic-based version, otherwise
identical.
ATS25
CV124, CV1374, CV1572 (ceramic base), CV1060,
QE06/50 (Mullard - as Phillips/Miniwatt)
QV05/25 (Mullard)
RK39 (Raytheon ceramic base)
VT60 (Air Ministry), VT60A (Air Ministry ceramic base), VT-100
(USA), VT199 (GPO)
ZA3496
5B/250A (STC)
10E/587 (ceramic base)
10E/11441
There are a boatload of other designations/variants by the look
of things.
I looked it up in my aged Radio Valve Data but there is no reference. It gives the QV05/25 as an equivalent for the 807. It would be typical of the Army to use a name that appears to be unknown beyond the Services. Not just the Army! Best regards,
Chris. (G8KGS)
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
john spendlove
ATS25 is same as 807
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 10:37, Chris_Suslowicz <chris@...> wrote: Mike Buckley wrote:
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Mike Buckley wrote:
Hence the reason for owning a large house and having single occupancyOi! I resemble that remark. Chris. (G8KGS)
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
Michael O'Beirne
Gents
Is the ATS25 the same as an 807? I looked it up in my aged Radio Valve Data but there is no reference. It gives the QV05/25 as an equivalent for the 807. It would be typical of the Army to use a name that appears to be unknown beyond the Services.
73s Michael G8MOB
From: wireless-set-no19@groups.io <wireless-set-no19@groups.io> On Behalf Of phillip_kelly via groups.io
Sent: 02 March 2021 21:42 To: wireless-set-no19@groups.io Subject: [wireless-set-no19] Amplifier spare valve box contents
Just a small puzzle that perhaps someone can answer. I've recently acquired a 'Spare Valve Box' ostensibly for the WS19 amplifier. It is marked No 5 Mk 1/1. _._,_._,_
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Hence the reason for owning a large house and having single occupancy
Mike
On 02/03/2021 22:07, Chris_Suslowicz
wrote:
"Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it." Best regards, Chris. (G8KGS)
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Re: Amplifier spare valve box contents
At 13:41 -0800 2/3/21, phillip_kelly (MW0KGP) wrote:
Just a small puzzle that perhaps someone can answer. I've recently acquired a 'Spare Valve Box' ostensibly for the WS19 amplifier. It is marked No 5 Mk 1/1.Yes. :-) It's a spare of the fuseholder front that screws into the body, and is present in case you break or lose the one from the amplifier (e.g. by dropping it into the long grass/darkened recesses of your command tank, etc.) while changing the fuse. Same as the Case, Spare Parts, No.5C holding a couple of fuseholder caps, connector clips and springs, dynamotor brushes and flick locking screws, etc. "Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it." Best regards, Chris. (G8KGS)
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Amplifier spare valve box contents
phillip_kelly
Just a small puzzle that perhaps someone can answer. I've recently acquired a 'Spare Valve Box' ostensibly for the WS19 amplifier. It is marked No 5 Mk 1/1.
Its spares number is also marked as ZA28552. Its contents are listed on the internal label as 4 x ATS25, 2 off 2W lamps 951219, Cartridge fuses No1 500mA, ZA3577 (6 off) and 1 Carrier Fuse Cartridge No1 Z 590101. There is no surprise in respect of the valves, spare bulbs and 500mA fuses, but what on earth is the Carrier Fuse Cartridge No1? Note the number prefix is given as 'Z' and not 'ZA' The amplifier only has one fuse installed (500mA) so I can't see any reason why an additional fuse - whatever it is - should be included. Anyone know? Phil MW0KGP
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Re: Test transmission
Sorry, should have signed it – thought I was talking to a moderator! Roger Walker
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Sent: 02 March 2021 11:40 To: wireless-set-no19@groups.io Subject: Re: [wireless-set-no19] Test transmission
Good morning “Codger”. You are fine with me. Perhaps you would tell us your name and/or callsign?
73s Michael G8MOB Trimmed by Moderator
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Re: Test transmission
Michael O'Beirne
Good morning “Codger”. You are fine with me. Perhaps you would tell us your name and/or callsign?
73s Michael G8MOB
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Sent: 01 March 2021 23:30 To: wireless-set-no19@groups.io Subject: [wireless-set-no19] Test transmission
I have recently changed my e-mail address and have stopped receiving group mail traffic. This is just to test that I can send messages. _._,_._,_
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