Valve....New ?

[pwdrive]

Regarding miniature valves, most folks will know about these but if you don't here's some guff:

http://www.r-type.org/articles/art-150.htm

Lawrence.

[AlanBeckett]

There's also the Russian 'Rod' Valves - http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/russian...tubes.html

and the sub-miniature WW2 Valves used in Proximity Fuses and later Hearing Aids - http://www.r-type.org/addtext/add032.htm

I remember PW doing a tiny Radio with the latter.

Alan 

[pwdrive]

That's the first time I've seen a valve for proximity fuses, there's a chap on UKVRR who is quite familiar with the Russian rod types.

You've not frozen up then Alan, it's cold here compared to what we're used to, I think I'm getting nesh.

Lawrence.

[AlanBeckett]

Cold and just a bit damp up here. Yorkie says it's snowing up his way.
The BBC had a picture of fields of Daffs in bloom down your way the other day.

Alan

[Radio Fixer]

Are you allowed under the Radio Museum rules to paste their data Alan? As I understood it was confidential to members. Its not hard to join, pay a small lifetime fee (but then again some are so mean) or make a few submissions, which if judged worthwhile, grants free membership.

They are not being uncooperative but it took a considerable amount of time and effort to set up and has grown to the best resource of world radios there is. Obviously with huge membership and entries it needs big servers and funding. Amazingly it has data on “255,763 Old Time Radios and 1, 600, 331 pictures (27th Dec 2014) and 13,938 members in more than 90 countries”.

Glad you haven't got the snow, beautiful windless sunny morning here so a good walk I think.

Gary