Valve Factory Virtual Tour AWV Ashfield Sydney Australia

Testing a high power transmitting valve

Cover picture from Radiotronics volume 17 number 9, September 1952.

"The cover of this issue shows the AWV high-power transmitting valve test set-up. On test is an 892-R; the largest air-cooled transmitting valve made at the Ashfield factory of Amalgamated Wireless Valve Company Pty. Ltd"

Cover picture from Radiotronics number 134, November-December 1948.

"Testing a Radiotron Type 892-R Valve

View shows the interior of the test set with a valve set up in a mounting similar to that used in a transmitter.

Behind the valve can be seen the tank coil and condensor which forms part of the oscillatory circuit in which the valve is being operated"

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Acknowledgment: This web page contains text and images from Radiotronics. A Radiotron technical release published in Sydney, N.S.W., by Amalgamated Wireless Valve Company Pty. Ltd.

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