Ok so I have been out of 2 way radio for some time. I apprenticed in H.S. at a shop that did warranty work for all the major Amateur company's, local Business, Police, and aging Radar Equipment at the Airports. So it has been some time since I have had to shop for tubes for a customer and a lot has changed.
In this case I am putting together a system for my 12 year old who is taking class's at the local Red Cross to become a true Amateur. The local CB crowd is really bad with the vulgarity in my area. So I have an old tube amp I am going to set up for 10/12/6 meter operation.
It is a Kris Power Pump and according tot he current owner it has 1 x 6L6GC driving 2 x 6L6GC tubes.
So I googled 6L6 and the variants of that and wow tons of options....Seems that since the Guitar AMP's are now going tubed again that the choices of manufacture's and variation's is almost endless. Their are 2 Russian, 1 Slovakian, 2 Chinese tube manufacture's and a ton of re-branded tubes. Some companies have enough sales that they have variation made to their specification's and so on so a lot of variable and little hard data.
I am not out to get more power if that was the case I would just buy a bigger amp or would have gone solid state with switching power supply etc...... I want to get tubes that have the most robust, durable design built with the best materials and rare elements and such. This is more then enough amp for 12 year old. I value clean sound, low distortion, and long life over all else.
I am currently looking at Winged C 6L6GC, Ruby 6L6GC-MSTR, RoHS 6L6GC as sold by Bergura(sp). All the information I can find is really biased towards musicians that are purposefully over driving their amps to get distortion so not really useful for what I want to know?
Also since this is a 110 Volt base amp is their any value in going with a ruggedized military grade product similar to JAN standards? I am guessing the extra rugged design would not do much in my application.
Thanks guys and gals!
In this case I am putting together a system for my 12 year old who is taking class's at the local Red Cross to become a true Amateur. The local CB crowd is really bad with the vulgarity in my area. So I have an old tube amp I am going to set up for 10/12/6 meter operation.
It is a Kris Power Pump and according tot he current owner it has 1 x 6L6GC driving 2 x 6L6GC tubes.
So I googled 6L6 and the variants of that and wow tons of options....Seems that since the Guitar AMP's are now going tubed again that the choices of manufacture's and variation's is almost endless. Their are 2 Russian, 1 Slovakian, 2 Chinese tube manufacture's and a ton of re-branded tubes. Some companies have enough sales that they have variation made to their specification's and so on so a lot of variable and little hard data.
I am not out to get more power if that was the case I would just buy a bigger amp or would have gone solid state with switching power supply etc...... I want to get tubes that have the most robust, durable design built with the best materials and rare elements and such. This is more then enough amp for 12 year old. I value clean sound, low distortion, and long life over all else.
I am currently looking at Winged C 6L6GC, Ruby 6L6GC-MSTR, RoHS 6L6GC as sold by Bergura(sp). All the information I can find is really biased towards musicians that are purposefully over driving their amps to get distortion so not really useful for what I want to know?
Also since this is a 110 Volt base amp is their any value in going with a ruggedized military grade product similar to JAN standards? I am guessing the extra rugged design would not do much in my application.
Thanks guys and gals!
