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6K8

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ID = 2702
       
Country:
United States of America (USA)
Brand: Common type USA tube/semicond.
Developer: RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY) 
Tube type:  Triode-Hexode   Frequency converter   Controlling (mu) 
Identical to 6K8 = VT-167 = CV1945 = 38568K
Similar Tubes
Other shape (e.g. bulb type):
  6K8G ; 6K8GT
Heater different:
  12K8
First year 31.Jan.1938 Electron Tube Registration List
Successor Tubes 6SA7  

Base Octal (Int.Octal, IO) K8A, USA 1935 (Codex=Ue) Top contact with a cap.
Was used by Radio/TV-reception etc.
Filament Vf 6.3 Volts / If 0.3 Ampere / Indirect / Specified voltage AND current AC/DC
Tube prices 3 Tube prices (visible for members only)
Information source Essential Characteristics, GE 1973   
Tube Lore (II)   p. 65 & 183
Taschenbuch zum Röhren-Codex 1948/49
Babani, International Radio Tube Encyclopaedia

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6K8: Courtesy Bureau Belper (De Muiderkring, Bussum), Scan Frank Philipse
Anonymous 10 Collector

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Anonymous 10 Collector

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Just Qvigstad
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6K8: Valvulas de recepción manual RC-20
Miguel Angel Trujillo-Rodriguez

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Usage in Models 1= 1937? ; 12= 1938?? ; 47= 1938? ; 190= 1938 ; 31= 1939?? ; 25= 1939? ; 94= 1939 ; 35= 1940?? ; 6= 1940? ; 85= 1940 ; 15= 1941?? ; 3= 1941? ; 38= 1941 ; 11= 1942?? ; 16= 1942? ; 8= 1942 ; 3= 1943?? ; 3= 1943? ; 2= 1943 ; 2= 1944?? ; 1= 1944 ; 7= 1945?? ; 5= 1945? ; 16= 1945 ; 10= 1946?? ; 11= 1946? ; 19= 1946 ; 10= 1947?? ; 7= 1947? ; 15= 1947 ; 16= 1948?? ; 5= 1948? ; 11= 1948 ; 7= 1949? ; 8= 1949 ; 31= 1950?? ; 7= 1950? ; 9= 1950 ; 1= 1951?? ; 2= 1951? ; 21= 1951 ; 1= 1952?? ; 3= 1952? ; 5= 1952 ; 1= 1953?? ; 5= 1954?? ; 5= 1954 ; 2= 1955 ; 2= 1956? ; 1= 1956 ; 2= 1958? ; 1= 1959 ; 1= 9999

Quantity of Models at Radiomuseum.org with this tube (valve, valves, valvola, valvole, válvula, lampe):875

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6K8
 

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