Re: [ARSCLIST] message from Rod Stephens

["Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Judson" <inaudio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Comment and question for Rod, perhaps trivial:
> On Nov 15, 2005, at 3:37 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
> >  But its advantage for radio work was that
> > if any one valve (U.S. "bottle") started failing, you were given 
> > switches to
> > find out which one it was.
> In the USA Bottles are for beer or milk; we call your valves "tubes" or 
> electron tubes. Any Americans ever called a tube a bottle?
> 
"Bottle" was once ham-radio slang for tubes, especially the power
amplifiers in transmitters (which were often large enough to have
been bottles!)...
...stevenc
http://users.interlinks.net/stevenc/
(ex- [long ago] K9JOO...)