The 8877 is a waste of money, for the dollars they choose to demand for it.
For the price of a new 8877 you can purchase an 8170 and socket on the used / pull market.
For about the same amount of money you can get all the parts.. Sure, your power xformer will cost a bit more for the anode voltage, but you will have a lot more life out of the tube / amp.
The glass tubes aren't being made anymore.... At least, not affordably. That means it's a waste of money / time to build around them.
It's a reflection of state of the art, or hollow state, if you will. the russian tubes are being used because they are cheap, not because of any big difference in technology.
This, of course, is just ramblings from some stupid CBer :)
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:28:50 -0800, alphasxsignal <videorov@...> wrote:
Seems to be alot of hams going to the GU84B tubes for their Big
amps over the 8877 or even the old 4-1000.
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