{"id":9380,"date":"2012-02-23T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/fat-tubes-day\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:26:16","slug":"fat-tubes-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/fat-tubes-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Tubes-day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CompactronsTitleBanner.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 145px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CompactronsTitleBanner.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712283080960875698\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I couldn&#8217;t resist using that title. Stephen from the UK sent me this link to Jeff Duntemann&#8217;s site about Compactron tubes. Many possibilities here. I think I have a 6T9 in my junk box. These are kind of like tube versions of ICs, but with the advantage of being understandable.<\/span><br \/><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.junkbox.com\/electronics\/CompactronTubesIndex.shtml\"><br \/>http:\/\/www.junkbox.com\/electronics\/CompactronTubesIndex.shtml<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist using that title. Stephen from the UK sent me this link to Jeff Duntemann&#8217;s site about Compactron tubes. Many possibilities here. I think I have a 6T9 in my junk box. These are kind of like tube versions of ICs, but with the advantage of being understandable.http:\/\/www.junkbox.com\/electronics\/CompactronTubesIndex.shtml Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/fat-tubes-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fat Tubes-day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9380","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\/9380","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=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9382,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions\/9382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}