{"id":336,"date":"2020-12-02T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/12\/02\/radioactive-regulator-tubes-oa2s-who-knew\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:01:17","slug":"radioactive-regulator-tubes-oa2s-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/12\/02\/radioactive-regulator-tubes-oa2s-who-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Radioactive Regulator Tubes — OA2s! Who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pete found this amazing collection of articles by master homebrewer Ed Marriner W6BLZ. They were published in a West Coast radio newsletter during the 1950s and 60s. The above is from this collection.<\/b><\/div>\n

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I know that this kind of article upsets some people. They will write in saying that they have using OA2s for 50 years with no ill effects. Others will sarcastically say that we should just try to avoid eating the OA2s. I know. Don’t blame me. Don’t blame Pete. You can blame the Navy. And Raytheon. And Cobalt 60 and Nickle 63. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Pete found this amazing collection of articles by master homebrewer Ed Marriner W6BLZ. They were published in a West Coast radio newsletter during the 1950s and 60s. The above is from this collection. I know that this kind of article upsets some people. They will write in saying that they have using OA2s for 50 … Continue reading “Radioactive Regulator Tubes — OA2s! Who knew?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}