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Update:


Finally got the bias straightened out on recieve.  The wires were not in the right places on the relay for switching from -36VDC to -16VDC from receive to transmit.  Tube no longer heats up during receive, bias stays at 35.9-36VDC.   On transmit it's a little high, about 16.5-18VDC (can't remember exactly).  The amp "works" but it's most all carrier and has hardly any swing, and most I can get is about 15W out of it with 30 watts going in... So, I am a little stumped about this, being a tube amp noob, but I am thinking the transmit bias being a little high is the problem.  I have gone through every circuit in the amp and tested every part, and it's all as it should be.  Someone had the wires backward on the relay, and the voltage divider resistors that were supposed to be there for dropping the -32VDC(actually -36VDC in this particular amp) to 16VDC had been changed.  They had a 100K and a 220K resistor in there, where the schematic calls for 2 100K's.  So I put 2 100K's in there, and the bias voltage sits a little higher than -16VDC.  So I guess since it's not too hard to do, I am going to add a resistor after the 2 100K's to lower the transmit bias voltage a little more, to see if that will make the amp work right.  I could be on the complete wrong path, but hey, worst I could do is it wouldn't work any better way I see it.  Gotta learn somehow.  Maybe I should open some of the 50's-60's textbooks on electronics and tubes I have here...  Nah, will do that later....