[BC] tube sound (tube transmitters)

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In a message dated 06/06/2006 08:34:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
SBailey at nespower.com writes:

> Its o.k. for hobbyist, hams, etc, to play with the old tube beast, and
>  yes that would be fun, but for 24/7 use, no way! 

I agree, completely! That's why we got rid of "Ol' Bessie", here. Once we had 
the Gates 5 online, Ol' Bess gave up the ghost a short time later. (One time 
when I went to "excercise" it, it simply wouldn't make power.) Once that 
happened, we figured it simply wasn't worth fixing. We donated it to a college, and 
got a $5,000 tax write-off. It was worth it. They got a nice "organ donor" 
for Science, and we got a lot of space in our TX room.

Willie...