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For personal use I have switched to Old Age Pensioner cell phones.
No gimmicks and they look nice and fuggly like me.

For work I have to use an i-phone.
I seem to send 60% of calls into nirvana when the touch screen touches my ear. May be I'm not supposed to use it that way?

A. ECF82, not the EF82 which has no triode section and different characteristics. Running the EF86 for twelve hours solid before switching off has been said to help the reliability (I forget which data sheet I picked that up from) - so get yourself a dog '86 for your initial fire up & de-bug phase. ...

Only test equipment I really have is an answering machine wallwart that gives me 10VAC for determining unknown transformer secondaries. Other than that, I'd be sad if I didn't have my headlamp thingy. I used an AC wallwart for a long time for each first power-up test without tubes. I would prefer n...