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Back to work after a break...

I took a break to fix some other equipment so that I could sell it at a swapmeet. I put one of the FT-101E's back on the bench and checked the output.  The tubes are unknown, but seem to put out good output on 80 and 40 meters. I can only get about 9 watts on 10 meters.  I've spoken with some people, and they say soft tubes can cause the dropout on 10 meters. So next step is to swap the tubes out and re-neutralize the new ones.

Testing tubes

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I finally gathered up all the 6JS6C tubes that I've collected and brought them to a friends house to test them.  Looks like I have 6 pairs of tubes that test good.  Four of those pares test really good, like 2000/1200.  I ended up with about a dozen bad tubes and a dozen good tubes.