[Milsurplus] Hey Bob, W9RAN

[Hubert Miller]

I would like to retain the single - tube nature of the Conar transmitter. This has certain bragging rights. If it means i must 
use old - stock FT-243s, so be it. I will be carefull. 

This topic has me wondering about a tube company ad on the back of a CQ magazine. It showed a single 813 tube "power 
oscillator". No - not a MOPA; just one tube. How did they do that, i wondered. Without immediately cracking the crystal.

I recall many decades ago in high school, i was taking some kind of electronics class. There was some breadboard circuit
prototyping kit and i had from somewhere, a crystal for the AM broadcast band. I built up a single tube, something like
6DQ6 tube, power oscillator transmitter. How long did that last ? About long enough to send one line of text CW; then
the crystal, no more work. 
-Hue Miller