CBS type 6K8GT triode-hexode frequency converter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1939
name: label: maker
content: CBS Electronics
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An 8-pin metal base with plastic insulator and center post, top contact, T-shaped envelope. Stamped: “6K8 / GT / CBS”. Donor’s card reads: “Triode-hexode converter made by CBS Electronics, Danvers, Mass. Glass octal type used as a combined triode oscillator and hexode mixer in radio receivers. Electrically similar to but physically different from the metal type 6-K-8 tube [catalog number 324666]. Heater type: 6.3 volts at .3 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6k8gt.html.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.325264
label: catalog number
content: 325264
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: triode, hexode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Object Name
content: hexode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.5725 cm x 3.175 cm