Re: [ARSCLIST] message from Rod Stephens

[Jeffrey Kane <jeffkane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would think the tubes used for the 500KW transmitter at WLW back in the
'30s would certainly qualify as some massive 'bottles' indeed. 

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> ----- 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...)
>