Old news to some, perhaps... I think he died some time ago; but W4ZT's amplifier web sites, mostly showing big Russian tubes such as the GS-35B but also with links to many European Russian tube sites, seem to have been dropped by the ISP in the last month or so. He also advertised sockets from K4POZ, who also died a decade or more ago, who used to build professional-looking sockets for such as the GI-7B. I cannot remember who I got them from, but I was able to buy new sockets as recently as several years ago from someone that I found on the W4ZT site.

73,

Steve K0XP

FYI….I met Tony King many years ago for the first time at the Shelby, NC. Hamfest. ?Toby was with a group of guys including Ron K4POZ. ?They were best of friends and worked together on converting different smaller US amps to Russian tubes. ?They made bias boards and homemade tube sockets. ?Tony and I headed it off great. ?You see Tony had a heart transplant a few years prior to me meeting him. ?His heart came from a 40!year old woman. ?He kidded that if ?he?was bitchy sometimes it was due to his female heart. ?I was scheduled for my kidney transplant when I met Tony and he told me he would come and wait for me to wake up from my anesthesia and be at my side. ?Unfortunately Tony passed away from melanoma cancer afterwards and wasn’t able to visit me. ?After Tony passed away Ron K4POZ kept selling tube sockets and bias boards that Tony designed. ?W4EMF was another fellow who did numerous tube transplants on many different Dentron amps. ?He put GI7b tubes in just about everything. ?W4EMF has numerous photos on the net on his many conversions he’s done. ?It’s worth a Google search on W4EMF to see the many things he did! ?Just thought I’d share with you.

On 12/6/2023 6:00 AM, Louis Parascondola via groups.io wrote:

W4EMF was another fellow who did numerous tube transplants on many different Dentron amps. ?He put GI7b tubes in just about everything. ?W4EMF has numerous photos on the net on his many conversions he’s done. ?It’s worth a Google search on W4EMF to see the many things he did! ?Just thought I’d share with you.

Unfortunately, it seems that any reference to the original W4EMT's material is gone, too? 8-(

73,

Steve K0XP

Try with http://www.archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20230830230406/https://w4zt.com/

Try the Internet Wayback Machine. There's a good chance you will find it there.

Mod-U-Lator,
Mike(y)/W3SLK

On 12/6/2023 6:26 AM, Mike Sawyer via groups.io wrote:

Try the Internet Wayback Machine. There's a good chance you will find it there.

Yes, indeed; but my point is that all of this fantastic old amplifier reference material is now on it's way gone... so anybody wishing to personally archive any of it had better get busy saving archived pages.

My own original web site disappeared over a dozen years ago, some ten years or so after my old, original ISP died. I can only access my old material on things such as Oldsmobile engines, and my AM-6154/6155 modifications, via the Wayback site.

73,

Steve K0XP

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True, for that one cover page; however, the links don't go through the Wayback machine, so they don't come up with pages. One has to copy the indicated url for a link into wayback machine in order to get to a desired page.

73,

Steve K0XP

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73,

Mike Mysliwiec

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On Dec 6, 2023, at 9:25 AM, va3dxv <va3dxv@...> wrote:

Try with