6HS6

[Ron Bracklow]

You can also order all you want from Radio Shack for $7.50 ea.

Take care,

Ron, N6PWW

----- Original Message -----
From: Stewart Lyon <stu_w6cux at JUNO.COM>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: 6HS6


> Hi John, Carl and all,
>
> The 6HS6 is not that scarce.  If you get on the Internet and use your
> search engine for 6HS6, you'll get about four pages of 'hits'.  One of
> them will be ESRC who lists the tube for $5.00. Others have it from $6 to
> $12.  If you order from ESRC, make sure you request American-made:
> otherwise they will send ProCom which are Chinese-made and not as
> consistent in gain. All this from personal experiance. After a couple
> back-and-forths, I ended up with Sylvanias which work well.
>
> There was an interesting article in QST back when they were a tech
> magazine (Feb'66) about noise figure, gain etc. From that article, I made
> a spreadsheet that evaluates all the various pentodes used in SB gear.
> The only close pentodes to the 6HS6 is the 6AH6 which has higher
> grid-to-plate capacity and may oscillate or the 6HR6 which has differant
> AGC characteristics and may be just as hard/easy to get.
>
> This same spreadsheet led me to recommend the 6GM6 over the 6BZ6  in the
> RFAmp of the SB-301 a year or so ago. Really makes a difference in that
> receiver.
>
> BTW, I doubt the replacement of the RFAmp will have much to do with the
> audio quality.
>
> Interesting subject  -- more so than the price of a GDO.
>
> 73, Stu - W6CUX
> Winnetka, CA
> ARRL Life Member
>
> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 07:00:23 -0700 Carl Hyde <cshyde at YAHOO.COM> writes:
> >A few days ago I missed a thread that started with
> >someone offering some 6HS6 tubes for sale.
> >Unfortunately I missed the sale however the seller
> >said they would improve the reception and audio of the
> >SB tranceivers. What we need to know is what tubes
> >they are substituted for in the SB series and if we
> >knew that we would both have the answer to the same
> >problem.  So if someone could help john and me out by
> >explaining to us what tubes are the 6HS6 substitutes
> >for we would both apreciate it.
> >
> >--- John Garko <Jgarko at AOL.COM> wrote:
> >> Hi all green people...As I bring my SB102 to life
> >> the quality of the receive
> >> audio is just not there.  Definitely readable be not
> >> crisp. Especially on
> >> strong signals. Any thoughts? Any one with a similar
> >> experience?
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> John
> >> WA4KWK
> >>
> >Carl S.HYDE
> >W2CSH
> >
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