Ok I noticed a lot of older transverters kits and designs fall really short of the modern norm of 100 watt's needed to drive most amateur amplifiers. For instance most transverters for 6 meter are under 50 watt's output in fact a lot of the ones I had seen in the past where at or under 25 watt's of output. So how come no one builds input section with a driver tube that could be switch bypassed when needed. I have read articles from the past where all the big men had dual 811A's driving dual 813's so it is not like the driver tube set up has no place in Ham History. When looking at this hobbies propensity for saving old boat anchor's from the past it really makes a lot of sense.
So how come I have not seen a single modern design or homebrew Amplifer with a driver section for say 6meter band? One or two small low wattage tubes would be insignificant with regards to cost when looking at the price of all the other parts?
The main reason I ask is because it is common to see driver's in amp's black market models aimed at illegal use on 11meter/CB....So I was wondering if it is due mostly to the stigma associated with CB or is it just a lack of perceived need or just too many people with new gear with 100 watts output for anyone to worry about the old rigs and under powered transverter's etc????
In fact I read an article where a guy built a home brew 6 meter amp with Russian GI7b tube and after he was done he commented on how he could not use it with his 6 meter transverter because it only put out 15 watts!!! If this was an option that added very little to the price of an OEM amp would you like to have that feature in the off chance you might need it some day? I would imagine that the 1-2 tubes in that circuit would last better then 50 years if their seals and such remained in tact and they where warmed up once a month since they would get next to zero use by 99% of owner's.If you ever needed it though you would already have that functionality built in. Kind of like a spare tire. I have never needed to use one but I sure like the idea of having that spare in the trunk and properly inflated!!!
Any ways I just wanted to hear what people thought about this? The cheapest way to do this would be to use some kind of sweep tube still in production or some other low cost glass envelope compact tube.
So how come I have not seen a single modern design or homebrew Amplifer with a driver section for say 6meter band? One or two small low wattage tubes would be insignificant with regards to cost when looking at the price of all the other parts?
The main reason I ask is because it is common to see driver's in amp's black market models aimed at illegal use on 11meter/CB....So I was wondering if it is due mostly to the stigma associated with CB or is it just a lack of perceived need or just too many people with new gear with 100 watts output for anyone to worry about the old rigs and under powered transverter's etc????
In fact I read an article where a guy built a home brew 6 meter amp with Russian GI7b tube and after he was done he commented on how he could not use it with his 6 meter transverter because it only put out 15 watts!!! If this was an option that added very little to the price of an OEM amp would you like to have that feature in the off chance you might need it some day? I would imagine that the 1-2 tubes in that circuit would last better then 50 years if their seals and such remained in tact and they where warmed up once a month since they would get next to zero use by 99% of owner's.If you ever needed it though you would already have that functionality built in. Kind of like a spare tire. I have never needed to use one but I sure like the idea of having that spare in the trunk and properly inflated!!!
Any ways I just wanted to hear what people thought about this? The cheapest way to do this would be to use some kind of sweep tube still in production or some other low cost glass envelope compact tube.
