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		<title>My Experiences with  Power Grid Tubes and Rebuilders</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[February 2026] With word of the upcoming closing of the Econco tube rebuilding facility, we thought it was worth looking back at an industry that grew up fast and saved stations a lot of money, but now is fading as solid-state transmitters have replaced a lot of the high-power rigs using tubes. Reid Brandon was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; [July 2025] Even as we move further and further away from using tubes – especially power tubes – in transmitters in favor of solid-state products, the history of those power tubes and how their development helped the broadcast industry grow with reliable power amplifiers. Reid Brandon is back with a look, this time, at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; [July 2025] A fair number of broadcasters have recently been startled when seeking to rebuild a power tube. Solid-state transmitters are definitely the norm now. But what about those still trying to keep their tube units operating. Reid Brandon – a former Eimac engineer – has some disquieting thoughts. I was recently contacted by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Eimac and Continental Shared a Tube and Transmitter Fiasco</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[August 2018] When designing and building transmitters, it take a lot of cooperation and communication to make things work. Reid Brandon recalls what happened when some of that did not happen. The history of the Eimac 4CX40,000G broadcast tube is an interesting one, coming at one of the darkest chapters in the company&#8217;s past. That [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Short History of the 4CX25,000A</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[October 2017] Even as tube transmitters are disappearing, especially in television, the stories of how and why they were designed continue to be fascinating. Most of the tubes Eimac has developed over the years have had long product life cycles. The 4CX5000A, for example, was designed prior to 1960 and is still in production and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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