From: peterxpercival@hotmail.com   
      
   default wrote:   
   > On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:45:57 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom   
      
      
   >   
   > And he says nothing of what he wants to build,   
      
   That's a good point!  It may be that I won't know until I get started,   
   but how about   
      
   Valve voltmeter; oscillators (Hartley, Colpitts,...); power supply; SW   
   receiver.   
      
   Suggestions grateful received.   
      
   > chances are it wouldn't   
   > require the iron of a MOT to carry the VA required.  Then too we had   
   > some Delco car radios back in the stone ages that used 12V for the   
   > plates of the tubes and a big old (Germanium PNP) transistor for the   
   > output with a small tapped inductor to match impedance.   
   >   
   > Several tube radio schematics and a few that use 12V for the plate   
   > supply:   
   >   
   > http://makearadio.com/tube/tube-radio-schematics.php   
      
   There's plenty there that looks doable by a beginner.   
      
   > another   
   >   
   > https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/may2015_Whipple   
   >   
   > Tubes to do the magic and transistors for the heavy lifting.   
   >   
      
      
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