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Peak the grid, dip the plate

In Amateur Radio, long before transistors were put in radios, there was a phenomenon called “dipping the plate current”, and then “peaking the grid current”. This was done for the vacuum tubes in the final amplifier section of the radio. The reason for this procedure was to make sure that the most power went into [...]