FYI¡.I met Tony King many years ago for the first time at the Shelby, NC. Hamfest. ?Toby was with a group of guys including Ron K4POZ. ?They were best of friends and worked together on converting different smaller US amps to Russian tubes. ?They made bias boards and homemade tube sockets. ?Tony and I headed it off great. ?You see Tony had a heart transplant a few years prior to me meeting him. ?His heart came from a 40!year old woman. ?He kidded that if ?he?was bitchy sometimes it was due to his female heart. ?I was scheduled for my kidney transplant when I met Tony and he told me he would come and wait for me to wake up from my anesthesia and be at my side. ?Unfortunately Tony passed away from melanoma cancer afterwards and wasn¡¯t able to visit me. ?After Tony passed away Ron K4POZ kept selling tube sockets and bias boards that Tony designed. ?W4EMF was another fellow who did numerous tube transplants on many different Dentron amps. ?He put GI7b tubes in just about everything. ?W4EMF has numerous photos on the net on his many conversions he¡¯s done. ?It¡¯s worth a Google search on W4EMF to see the many things he did! ?Just thought I¡¯d share with you.
On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 8:10 AM, Steve <k0xp@...> wrote:
Old news to some, perhaps... I think he died some time ago; but W4ZT's
amplifier web sites, mostly showing big Russian tubes such as the GS-35B
but also with links to many European Russian tube sites, seem to have
been dropped by the ISP in the last month or so. He also advertised
sockets from K4POZ, who also died a decade or more ago, who used to
build professional-looking sockets for such as the GI-7B. I cannot
remember who I got them from, but I was able to buy new sockets as
recently as several years ago from someone that I found on the W4ZT site.
73,
Steve K0XP
