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UV208

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ID = 44395
       
Country:
United States of America (USA)
Brand: General Electric for Brand RCA-Radiotron; Bridgeport CT, Syracuse NY
Developer: General Electric Co. (GE); Bridgeport CT, Syracuse NY 
Tube type:  Transmitting Triode, air cooled   Universal 
Identical to UV208
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Normally replaceable-slightly different:
  CG-1353
Base Pin-and-blade jumbo (3 contacts) Sidecontact.
Was used by Transmittertube (Radio)
Filament Vf 22 Volts / If 24.5 Ampere / Direct / Specified voltage AC/DC
Description

Work on this tube started at the G E laboratories in the fall of 1921. The type number was assigned to it in December 1921 and iit was available to the public the following year. This tube was not announced as part of the RCA general tube line. It was used as the final stage amplifier at radio station WGY in their first transmitter.

 
Information source -- Collector info (Sammler)   Banneitz, TB der drahtl. Telephonie u.Telegr. 1927
- - Manufacturers Literature   Development of Radiotron transmitting tubes to 193
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Fin Stewart

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UV208: Banneitz, TB der drahtl. Teleph. 1927
Anonymous 15 Collector
 
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