Re: VTTC from Eimac 8755 on eBay

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Original poster: westland <westland@xxxxxx>

It's interesting how they use it as an electron gun ... they break 
off the top part of the ceramic, and they pull off the anode ... I 
guess leaving them with a cathode gun and a grid to modulate it.
Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> At first glance, this looks like a radar tube. 3 GHz, and in that 
> use, pulsed duty wouldn't be unusual.
> A quick google also turns up the use of that tube in a bunch of 
> accelerator applications.


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